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What Was Like to Ride the Transcontinental Railroad?
The swift, often comfortable ride on the Transcontinental Railroad opened up the American West to new settlement.
Read more about What Was Like to Ride the Transcontinental Railroad?Erin Blakemore
Erin Blakemore is a journalist from Boulder, Colorado. She has been a regular contributor to History.com since 2017. Her work has appeared in outlets like The Washington Post, National Geographic, The Atlantic, TIME, Smithsonian and more. Her book, The Heroine's Bookshelf (Harper), won the Colorado Book Award for nonfiction. Learn more about Erin and her work at erinblakemore.com
