While The Great Railroad Race, The Diary of Libby West is actually fiction, but based on fact, it gives a reality tale of the diary of the daughter of a newspaper reporter. Fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.
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Other Documents
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Frontier Life, Pioneer Life, Western Migration, Fiction, Children's Book