Eldon offers his son a world the boy has never seen

and goading him into a destructive

raised her children and fostered many others

in American history

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad missing women Eldon offers his son aEmpire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial