"The Great American Railroad War" by Dennis Drabelle
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Date: 08-26-2012 - 18:29
“The Great American Railroad War: How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took On the Central Pacific Railroad”
by Dennis Drabelle
Bierce was muckraking journalist who wrote for William Randolph Hearst's newspapers.
Norris was a novelist who wrote "The Octopus", loosely based on the Mussel Slough Tragedy, and the previous novel "McTeague."