Download or read book The Shaping of America: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915 written by Donald William Meinig and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on America's development from the mid-19th century to 1915 begins with the struggle over where to build the Pacific railway. Meinig portrays the settlement of the American West, examines the South as an imperial province, and considers America's pressures upon Canada and Mexico.