The National Dream / The Last Spike - Berton, Pierre

Clean, tight, unmarked; age tanning; three light creases to spine; previous owner's name and date on ffep; otherwise very minimal wear; A history of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway from its inception in 1871 to 1881. Using primary sources-diaries, letters, unpublished manuscripts, public documents & newspapers - Berton has reconstructed the decade of the 1870s, when Canadians of every stripe-contractors, politicians, financiers, surveyors, workingmen, journalists & entrepreneurs-fought for or against the railway.
Very Good
Paperback
McClelland and Stewart
1974
Toronto, ON