| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Historian Stephen E. Ambrose wrote: ???With the improvement of train technology plus the discover of gold in California, and because of the extreme difficulty of getting to California, there was an overwhelming demand for a transcontinental railroad.???281 Proposals to build one dated to 1832, but proposals became mired in the political and sectional disputes of the period.
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