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Last train to Paradise : Henry Flagler and the building of the railroad that crossed the ocean by Standiford, Les; Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830-1913 is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller, dreamed of a railway connecting the island of Key West to the Florida mainland, crossing a staggering 153 miles of open ocean—an engineering challenge b
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Standiford, Les; Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830-1913
- Publisher
- New York: Crown Publishers
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400049479
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Technology, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (38 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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