<p><span class="deck">Snowshed crews on the Central Pacific, battling blizzards and snowslides, built “the longest house in the world”</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Where two lines raced to drive the last spike In the transcontinental track</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Her son had her committed. She said it was so he could get his hands on her money. Now, 130 years after this bitter and controversial drama, a trove of letters—long believed destroyed—sheds new light on it.</span></p>
