Description 2012 Nebraska Book Award: Cover/Design/Illustration The transcontinental telegraph was a remarkable technological feat that had major consequences for the West and the nation as a whole.
Yet relatively little has been written about it.
Recently re-discovered in the Smithsonian Institution collections, this previously unpublished diary is the only known extensive source written about the day-to-day construction of one segment of the first transcon.
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History Nebraska First telegraph line across the continent: charles brown's 1861 diary, paperback/dennis n. mihelich
