Sunset Limited

So many books have already been written about the Central Pacific, predecessor of the Southern Pacific, that the story of the transcontinental railroad (1869) is given little attention in this big and impressive book. Instead, we have a detailed and scholarly study of the Southern Pacific Company as a business and its impact on the West’s settlement, agriculture, economics, even conservation, as well as transportation. Although not a whitewash, this is a revisionist history—an attempt at