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==Further reading==
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* {{cite book | last=Allen| first=James B. | author-link=James B. Allen (historian) |author2=[[Glen M. Leonard]]  | title=[[The Story of the Latter-day Saints]] | year=1976 | publisher=[[Deseret Book Company]] | location=Salt Lake City, Utah }}
* {{cite book| title=Nothing Like It In The World; The men who built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863–1869| url=https://archive.org/details/nothinglikeitinw00ambr| url-access=registration| author=Ambrose, Stephen E.| year=2000| publisher=Simon & Schuster| isbn=0684846098| author-link=Stephen E. Ambrose}}
* {{cite book| title=Empire Express; Building the first Transcontinental Railroad| author=Bain, David Haward| year=1999| publisher=Viking Penguin| isbn=067080889X| url=https://archive.org/details/empireexpressbui00bain}}
* {{cite book| title=The Central Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads: Centennial Edition| author=Beebe, Lucius| year=1969| publisher=Howell-North| isbn=083107034X| author-link=Lucius Beebe }}
* Chang, Gordon H. (2019). ''Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad.'' Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
* Cooper, Bruce C., [http://cprr.org/Museum/Riding_the_Rails_Intro.html ''"Riding the Transcontinental Rails: Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad 1865–1881"''] (2005), Polyglot Press, Philadelphia {{ISBN|1411599934}}
* Cooper, Bruce Clement <small>(Ed),</small> ''"The Classic Western American Railroad Routes"''. New York: Chartwell Books/Worth Press, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0785825739}}; BINC: 3099794.
* Duran, Xavier, "The First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad: Expected Profits and Government Intervention," ''Journal of Economic History,'' 73 (March 2013), 177–200.
* {{cite book|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/geology/publications/bul/612/index.htm |title=Guidebook of the Western United States, Part B. The Overland Route |author1=Lee, Willis T. |author2=Ralph W. Stone |author3=Hoyt S. Gale |name-list-style=amp |year=1916 |publisher=USGS Bulletin 612 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505042503/http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/geology/publications/bul/612/index.htm |archive-date=May 5, 2012 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Sandler |first1=Martin W. |title=Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the race to link the nation: The story of the transcontinental railroad |date=2015 |publisher=Candlewick Press |location=Somerville, MA |isbn=978-0763665272}}
* White, Richard. ''Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America'' (2010)
* Willumson, Glenn. ''Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad'' (University of California Press; 2013) 242 pages; studies the production, distribution, and publication of images of the railroad in the 19th and early 20th centuries.