This booklet claims to be a brief history of the Union Pacific, but it is mostly a history of the construction of the railroad and the pounding of the famous gold spike. Sixteen pages deal with everything up to the last spike, while just six cover everything that happened after that. Everything between 1869 and Edward Harriman’s 1898 takeover, including the company’s two bankruptcies, is glossed over by just two short paragraphs.
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The front cover says this publication was first released in 1946 and that this is the 1951 edition. The back cover says that one quarter million copies had been issued in that five-year period.