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My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands

by George Francis Train

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — When I Was Four Years Old 1833
  3. 3Chapter II — My Voyage From New Orleans to Boston 1833
  4. 4Chapter III — My Boyhood on a Farm 1833-1843
  5. 5Chapter IV — Schooldays and a Start in Life 1840-1844
  6. 6Chapter V — Early New England Methodism
  7. 7Chapter VI — In a Shipping House in Boston 1844-1850
  8. 8Chapter VII — A Vacation Tour 1850
  9. 9Chapter VIII — A Partner in the Liverpool House 1850-1852
  10. 10Chapter IX — My Courtship and Marriage — Return to Liverpool 1850-1852
  11. 11Chapter X — Business Success in Australia 1853-1855
  12. 12Chapter XI — The Gold-Fever in New South Wales and Tasmania 1853-1855
  13. 13Chapter XII — Other Australian Incidents — A Revolution
  14. 14Chapter XIII — A Voyage to China 1855
  15. 15Chapter XIV — In Chinese Cities 1855-1856
  16. 16Chapter XV — To India and the Holy Land 1856
  17. 17Chapter XVI — In the Crimea 1856
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Home Once More and Then a Return to Europe 1856
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Men I Met in Paris 1856-1857
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Building the Atlantic and Great Western Railway 1857-…
  21. 21Chapter XX — A Visit to Russia 1857
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Building the First Street-Railways in England 1858
  23. 23Chapter XXII — England and Our Civil War — Blockade Running
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Building the Union Pacific Railway 1862-1870
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — The Development of the Far West 1863-1870
  26. 26Chapter XXV — The Share I Had in the French Commune 1870
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — A Candidate for President 1872
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Declared a Lunatic 1872-1873
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Around the World in Eighty, Sixty-Seven, and Sixty…

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