ACROSS AMERICA ON AN EMIGRANT TRAIN
Jim Murphy
Paperback
(SCHOLASTIC INC. @, Aug. 16, 1993)
1993, trade paperback edition, Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin, NY, children's title, 150 pages. Illustrated throughout with vintage photos and prints. Fabulous title, wonderful story, which reveals Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled to New York to California by train in 1879. Tells us what railroads were like in 19th century America.