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With this compelling DVD, experience one of the formative achievements of our nation. On a somber day in Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln ended his famous address with a promise that the war-torn nation would be reborn. The greatest symbol of that rebirth had already begun: the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.Here is the epic tale of the struggle to forge an iron link across the untamed West, the only engineering feat to spawn an American folk tale: the legend of John Henry. This DVD depicts the drama of every hard-won mile leading to Promontory, Utah where, on May 10, 1869, as the last symbolic spike linking the two railways was driven, a nation was united and forever transformed.