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The account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad-the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and...
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2012
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Crossing the country with his camera in the late nineteenth century, San Francisco photographer Edward Muybridge meets the emancipated young dancer Holly Hughes, who becomes his life's focus until a corrupt robber baron, interested in Muybridge's talent for technology, comes between them.
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