History Comics: The Transcontinental Railroad: Crossing the Divide
(Hardback)
Available Formats
Hardback
Published: 25th April 2023
Hardback
Published: 1st June 2021
Paperback
Published: 14th September 2021
Publishing Details
History Comics: The Transcontinental Railroad: Crossing the Divide
By (Author) Andy Hirsch
Roaring Brook Press
First Second
25th April 2023
United States
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Transport and vehicles
625.100973
Physical Properties
Hardback
128
Width 158mm, Height 222mm, Spine 12mm
374g
Description
The year is 1863, and America is divided not just by the civil war but by months of travel over thousands of miles. Two railroad companies, one from the East and one from the West, are given the task of connecting the nation by rail. Building this railroad will be a monumental undertaking, difficult and dangerous. The work falls to immigrant laborers from the lowest social and economic classes. They accomplish astounding feats of engineering while waiting for an answer: Will those who connect the country be accepted into it
Reviews
Exhilarated readers will come away with clear enough pictures of the project's costs and benefits to decide whether the one was worth the other. Suspenseful, grand of scope, and related with cinematic brio. --Kirkus Reviews
Author Bio
Andy Hirsch is a cartoonist living in Dallas, Texas. He is the author and illustrator of several entries in First Second's Science Comics and History Comics series, including Science Comics: Dogs, Science Comics: Trees, Science Comics: Cats, Science Comics: Rocks and Minerals, and History Comics: The American Bison.
