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    • The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
    • By: Daniel James Brown
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 576 ratings
    • On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire....

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    • The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,086 ratings
    • Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life....

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    • By: Clive Cussler
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: An Isaac Bell Adventure, Book 2
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,259 ratings
    • Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency....

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    • Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Del Roy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 580 ratings
    • Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century....

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    • The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II
    • By: Christian Wolmar
    • Narrated by: Christian Wolmar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert on trains and transportation....

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    • How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
    • By: Charles R. Morris
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 316 ratings
    • The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation....

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    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Frank Muller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 493 ratings
    • The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia....

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    • By: Keith C. Blackmore
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • In the spring of 1903, locomotive 311, known as the Majestic, carried more than one hundred passengers toward a tunnel through the underbelly of the Canadian Rockies. But then the mouth of the tunnel swallowed the 311 whole, and the train—and everyone on it—was never seen again.

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    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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    • By: C.J. Petit
    • Narrated by: Michael Alan White
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • As Carl sat astride his roan gelding and stared at Pine Bluffs, he knew that his days of punching cattle were over. The long drives across the West were dying now that the railroads had crisscrossed the Plains.

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    • The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Louis L'Amour
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 608 ratings
    • Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who’d left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station - and a mystery....

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    • The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • By: T.J. Stiles
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 28 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,425 ratings
    • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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    • The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Walter R. Borneman
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 09-28-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, which marked the completion of the country's first transcontinental railroad, was only the beginning of the race for railroad dominance....

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    • Blackstone Legacy, Book 2
    • By: Elizabeth Camden
    • Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
    • Series: Blackstone Legacy, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Natalia Blackstone is a rarity in Gilded Age America. As a trusted analyst for her father's bank, she is helping finance the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway. From her office in New York City, Natalia relies on a charming Russian aristocrat to oversee the construction of the railroad....

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    • By: Lev Grossman
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Series: The Silver Arrow, Book 2
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • A lot has changed for Kate in a year. She and Tom are now full-fledged conductors of the steam-powered, animal-saving Great Secret Intercontinental Railway. Life is good....

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