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Ten Mile Day

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Learn about the huge contribution to the building of the American Transcontinental railroad. How the Chinese laborers laid in one day 10 Miles of rails!

Reasons why you need this book:

Highlights the largely forgotten Chinese Contribution to building of the American Transcontintal Railroad.
Over 6000 Chinese worked on it.
The names associated with the transcontintal railroad are a part of California History. Stanford (university), Huntingon (Garden), and Crocker (Bank).
Great Illustrations!
Excellent for using in the class room!

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Building the first transcontinental railroad

Chinese Workers did a huge amount of work on the first transcontinental railroad. Over 6000 worked on it, about 2/3rds of the workers on the Western Region. This is a nice Children's book that captures the spirit of those Chinese who worked on it.

On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. In the race to reach the Summit, Central Pacific crews had to blast through mountains, brave avalanches, and sweat through the dessert. In time they had become so efficient, well organized, and hardy that their boss, Charles Crocker, staked $10,000 on their ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in one day.

Illustrated with Fraser's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is the story of a great American adventure. Come Climb Aboard!

REVIEWS
"Ten Mile Day is in a class by itself. It is a picture-book slice of American history..."
School Library Journal

"Making good use of the picture-book format, her realistic earth-tone paintings convey the action and sense of vastness of the scene and the enormity of the task....An attractive resource."
Kirkus Reviews

Building of the Transcontinental Railroad. Good book. Very truthful, been looking for this book for a while.

Related Lesson Plans

Transcontinental Railroad from PBS. The Group 3 Lesson for Chinese Laborers3 is a perfect fit with the book, 10 Mile Day. In the lesson you are to write a series of letters home to China describing the experience.
Information on the Chinese contributation to the Transcontinental Railroad from the Central Pacific History Museum.

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Ten Mile Day	March 27, 2008
Reviewer: JR from Monrovia,�CA

Interesting look at building the continental railroad with the use of Chinese workers. Good illustrations.

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Well Done	July 15, 2006
Reviewer: ray

The book is full of details telling the story of the contribution of the Chinese to the trans

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