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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Part One: Beginnings
Chapter 1 - A Proposal 1831
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
Part Two: The First Railroad
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
Part Three: New Growth
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
Chapter 22 - New Beginnings 1860–1861
Epilogue
Afterword
Notes
Index
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