To Order: Contact the WNPA Bookstore at Golden Spike NHS at 1-435-471-2209 Ext. 22 or write to Golden Spike NHS, WNPA Bookstore, P.O. Box 897, Brigham City, Utah 84302.

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Dear America; The Great Railroad Race The Diary of Libby West; Utah Territory, 1868 May 5, 1869 Late this afternoon our tracklayers arrived at the Summit! The Union Pacific engine came to a stop with a loud release of steam. Facing it, on another sidetrack, was California's locomotive. Both engines greeted each other with a sharp whistle. Finally. It was the first time the trains from the Pacific coast and the Atlantic coast had met, and I saw it with my own eyes! We cheered with excitement, men threw their hats in the air, ladies waved handkerchiefs, and Joe ran wild with some other boys.... Everyone is still waiting for Mr. Durant and the others to arrive. Then workers will lay the final half mile---that's just about 2,500 feet. Hardback, 203 pages, 18 photos: $10.95

Ages 12 and up Otter has always dreamed of going to America, "the Land of the Golden Mountain." There, together with his adoptive father and his hero, Uncle Foxfire, he plans to learn everything he can about American technology. Armed with this knowledge, they can all return to China and carry out the Great Work---to free China from the tyranny of the Manchu and other invaders. When an accident forces Otter to flee his home, he is more than ready to join his father and uncle in California, where they are working on the great transcontinental railroad. But the America that Otter finds is not what he had expected. The Chinese workers are essentially slaves, driven to achieve seemingly impossible task of chiseling a path for the railroad through the Sierra Nevada. Based on the experiences of the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad, Dragon's gate is the compelling story of one boy's struggle to rebuild his dreams against overwhelming odds. Paperback, 331 pages: $6.99

This book describes the development of the railroad in North America and its influences on the settling of the west and the Native Americans during the nineteenth century. Paperback, 8.5 X 11, 32 pages, 46 photos and illustrations: $7.95

The Iron Horse was coming.... Thundering and panting and breathing black smoke, it was a fearsome thing. The Cheyenne people had never seen a steam locomotive before, and it terrified them. Would it come right over the hill, into their camp, just as relentless soldiers and white settlers had done before? Powerful words and pictures tell the true story of August 7, 1867 ---when an "Iron Horse" was derailed by Native Americans. It is a tale of courage and pride and a people caught up in an unequal struggle to preserve their sacred way of life. Paperback, 7.5 X 10, 32 pages, illustrations every page: $5.99