Empire Express · Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by Bain, David Haward -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Preface Contents List of Maps Part I 1845–57: A Procession of Dreamers

1: “For All the Human Family” 2: “Who Can Oppose Such a Work?” 3: “I Must Walk Toward Oregon” 4: “The Great Object for Which We Were Created” 5: “An Uninhabited and Dreary Waste”

Part II 1860–61: Union, Disunion, Incorporation

6: “Raise the Money and I Will Build Your Road” 7: “There Comes Crazy Judah” 8: “The Marks Left by the Donner Party” 9: “The Most Difficult Country Ever Conceived” 10: “We Have Drawn the Elephant”

Part III 1863: Last of the Dreamers

11: “Speculation Is as Fatal to It as Secession” 12: “I Have Had a Big Row and Fight”

Part IV 1864: Struggle for Momentum

13: “First Dictator of the Railroad World” 14: “Dancing with a Whirlwind” 15: “Trustees of the Bounty of Congress”

Part V 1865: The Losses Mount

16: “The Great Cloud Darkening the Land” 17: “If We Can Save Our Scalps” 18: “I Hardly Expect to Live to See It Completed”

Part VI 1866: Eyeing the Main Chance

19: “Vexation, Trouble, and Continual Hindrance” 20: “The Napoleon of Railways” 21: “We Swarmed the Mountains with Men” 22: “Until They Are Severely Punished”

Part VII 1867: Hell on Wheels

23: “Nitroglycerine Tells” 24: “Our Future Power and Influence” 25: “They All Died in Their Boots” 26: “There Are Only Five of Us”

Part VIII 1868: Going for Broke

27: “More Hungry Men in Congress” 28: “Bring On Your Eight Thousand Men” 29: “We Are in a Terrible Sweat” 30: “A Man for Breakfast Every Morning”

Part IX 1869: Battleground and Meeting Ground

31: “A Resistless Power” 32: “We Have Got Done Praying”

Part X 1872–73: Scandals, Scapegoats, and Dodgers

Epilogue: “Trial of the Innocents” Notes Bibliography Index