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Iain MacGregor on the story of how ingenuity and greed powered the rise of America's railroads

Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow by Dee Brown (New York, 1977)

Dorris Alexander ‘Dee' Brown was a novelist and writer of historical non-fiction whose worldwide. Detailing the US government's destruction of Native American peoples in the western states towards the end of the 19th century, it has never gone out of print and was translated into 17 languages.

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