1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio
a grave-digging son of an ex-slave named Eustace
his travels to Mexico and Tangier
Yet few have known the full story of courage and human drama because no one has ever produced a lively and historically accurate account of the battle-until now
is desperate to get away from someone she's convinced will follow them wherever they go: her husband
Iron Horses rules of summer 1968: The body of aA "masterly" account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad (Douglas Brinkley) by the author of the bestselling The Admirals. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In Iron Horses, Borneman recounts the rivalries, contested routes,