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The Great Railroad Race

the Diary of Libby West (Dear America)

by Kristiana Gregory · 1999

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As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in the West in 1868.

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