Chapter 2 Lead Railroads Come to Western Michigan Territory 1831–1836
Chapter 3 Railroads and the Creation of Wisconsin Territory 1836
Chapter 4 The Territorial Years 1837–1848
Chapter 5 Establishing a Company 1848–1849
Chapter 6 Milwaukee to Waukesha: Picking the Route 1849
Chapter 7 Construction Begins 1849
Chapter 8 Rails and Locomotives 1850
Chapter 9 A Railroad is Born January–April 1851
Chapter 10 Growing Pains May–December 1851
Chapter 11 Wisconsin's Only Railroad 1852
Chapter 12 In the Rock River Valley 1848–1852
Chapter 13 The New Contenders 1852
Chapter 14 The Scramble for New Routes 1853
Chapter 15 Complete to Madison 1854
PART FOUR: THE GREAT BUILDING BOOM
Chapter 16 Western Goals and Eastern Connections 1855
Chapter 17 An Explosion of Railroads 1856
Chapter 18 The Struggle for Land Grants 1856
Chapter 19 Reaching the Mississippi 1857
PART FIVE: HARD TIMES AND RECOVERY
Chapter 20 A Peculiar Hardship 1858
Chapter 21 Reorganization 1859