{"product_id":"hear-that-lonesome-whistle-blow","title":"Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnother book by Dee Brown after nineteen prior works including the famous 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee', this time exploring the early great American railroads and how they opened up the country. It is an enthralling story  of ''breathtaking technological  ingenuity, pioneering idealism, hard driven labour and powerful greed'. The heroes were the irish labourers and Chineses coolies with the villains being the avaricious bankers and corrupt politicians. Before  the undertaking of the railway system was complete''more than 155 million acres of land had been given away to railway magnates, the Indian tribes had been massacred and the buffalo driven from the Great Plains, millions of settlers had been lured from Europe and a colossal  industrial nation had been forged.  This is a great piece of highly readable non-fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Love Vintage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51701907423528,"sku":"51064","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lovevintagebooks.com.au\/products\/hear-that-lonesome-whistle-blow","provider":"Love Vintage Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}