![]() ![]() 1865: The losses mount : "The great cloud darkening the land" "If we can save our scalps" "I hardly expect to live to see it completed" - pt. 1864: Struggle for momentum : "First dictator of the railroad world" "Dancing with a whirlwind" "Trustees of the bounty of Congress" - pt. 1863: Last of the dreamers : "Speculation is as fatal to it as secession" "I have had a big row and fight" - pt. 1860-61: Union, disunion, incorporation : "Raise the money and I will build your road" "There comes crazy Judah" "The marks left by the Donner Party" "The most difficult country ever conceived" "We have drawn the elephant" - pt. 1845-57: A procession of dreamers : "For all the human family" "Who can oppose such a work?" "I must walk toward Oregon" "The great object for which we were created" "An uninhabited and dreary waste" - pt. Includes bibliographical references (pages 759-777) and indexĬhronicles the events that took place in the thirty years it took to complete the first transcontinental railroad, profiling the key players in its development, the major setbacks the workers faced, and the public objections to the railroad's completion ![]()
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