Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow

“A fascinating story” of the railways that linked America from the #1 New York Times– bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ( The Washington Post ). Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed and isolated them, conquerable only by “the demonic power of the Iron Horse and its bands of iron track.” Although the