In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incr

Cy Warman's "The Last Spike and Other Railroad Stories" is a classic collection that celebrates American literature through tales of the railroad. Each story tr

After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's

Reproduction of the original: The Last Spike and other Railroad Stories by C.Y. Warman

Towards the Last Spike was written in 1952 by Canadian poet E. J. Pratt. It is a long narrative poem in blank verse about the construction of the first transcon