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Index
Cover
Other Books by this Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Maps
Introduction
Railroads and Railroaders
Major Events in Building the Southwestern Transcontinental System
Part I - Opening Gambits (1853-1874)
Chapter 1 - Lines upon the Map
Chapter 2 - Learning the Rails
Chapter 3 - An Interruption of War
Chapter 4 - Transcontinental by Any Name
Chapter 5 - The Santa Fe Joins the Fray
Chapter 6 - Straight West from Denver
Chapter 7 - “Why Is It We Have So Many Bitter Enemies?”
Part II - Contested Empire (1874-1889)
Chapter 8 - Showdown at Yuma
Chapter 9 - Impasse at Raton
Chapter 10 - Battle Royal for the Gorge
Chapter 11 - Handshake at Deming
Chapter 12 - West Across Texas
Chapter 13 - Transcontinental at Last
Chapter 14 - Battling for California
Chapter 15 - Gould Again
Chapter 16 - To the Halls of Montezuma
Chapter 17 - California for a Dollar
Part III - Santa Fe All the Way (1889-1909)
Chapter 18 - Making the Markets
Chapter 19 - Canyon Dreams and Schemes
Chapter 20 - The Boom Goes Bust
Chapter 21 - Still West from Denver
Chapter 22 - Top of the Heap
Chapter 23 - Dueling Streamliners
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
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