Epic of the OverlandA. M. Robertson, 1924 - 100 strani |
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B. F. Leete became bill Black Hills bridge broke Bryan buffalo building built California camp carried cars Casement Central Pacific Railroad Charles Crocker Cheyenne chief engineer City conductor crime cross desert Dodge dred east feet Filmore forty miles freight gave Governor Stanford grade horse Humboldt Huntington Indians Iowa Judah Julesburg land last rail Leland Stanford Lincoln load locomotives Mark Hopkins Mark Twain miles of iron Missouri River never Oakes Ames Ogden Ohio old print Omaha Overland Railroad party passed passenger pioneers President Promontory PROMONTORY SUMMIT reached road ROBERT LARDIN FULTON Rocky Mountains route Sacramento saloon Salt Lake San Francisco sent Sierra Nevada mountains snow snow sheds soldiers soon Southern Pacific spike station Strobridge subsidies Summit Superintendent Construction T. D. Judah tion took town track train dispatcher Truckee River Union Pacific Union Pacific Railroad Utah Valley Wadsworth wagon winter York
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Stran 60 - ... front with its load of rails. Two men seize the end of a rail and start forward, the rest of the gang taking hold by twos until it is clear of the car. They come forward at a run. At the word of command the rail is dropped in its place, right side up, with care, while the same process goes on at the other side of the car. Less than thirty seconds to a rail for each gang, and so four rails go down to the minute ! Quick work, you say, but the fellows on the UP are tremendously in earnest.
Stran 77 - ... now. Those were the days! — those old ones. They will come no more; youth will come no more. They were so full to the brim with the wine of life; there have been no others like them. It chokes me up to think of them. Would you like me to come out there and cry?
Stran 60 - A light car, drawn by a single horse, gallops up to the front with its load of rails. Two men seize the end of a rail and start forward, the rest of the gang taking hold by twos, until it is clear of the car. They come forward at a run. At the word of command the rail is dropped in its place, right side up with care, while the same process goes on at the other side of the car. Less than thirty seconds to a rail for each gang, and so four rails go down to the minute!
Stran 61 - The moment the car is empty it is tipped over on the side of the track to let the next loaded car pass it, and then it is tipped back again; and it is a sight to see it go flying back for another load, propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of 60 or 80 feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously.
Stran 108 - Freedom an' by gret events To pitch new States ez Old -World men pitch tents, Thou, taught by Fate to know Jehovah's plan Thet man's devices can't unmake a man, An...
Stran 61 - ... over the town or in any way to comply with our orders. They had commenced robbing our trainmen and committing other depredations. The situation was immediately remedied by the threat of Government troops. Also (p.94): ". . . . a crowd of gamblers had taken our terminal point at Julesburg (Colorado) and refused to obey the local officers we had appointed over it. I wired General Casement to take back his track force, clean the place up, and sustain the officers. When I returned to Julesburg, I...
Stran 44 - There were men following up the trains, surfacing the track, filling in the dirt and making it ready for business. Nobody was crowded, nobody was hurt, nobody lost a minute. General Casement, who laid the Union Pacific Iron, told me that they had laid every rail they could under their system and he owned up beaten. But he said he would beat me on the Northern Pacific. I said, "Then I'll beat you on the Southern Pacific.
Stran 54 - Lincoln advocated its passage and building, not only as a military necessity, but as a means of holding the Pacific coast to the Union.
Stran 108 - Brown foundlin' o' the woods, whose baby-bed Was prowled roun' by the Injun's cracklin' tread, And who grewst strong thru shifts, and wants, and pains, Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains, Who saw in vision their young Ishmael strain In each hard hand a vassal Ocean's mane ! Thou taught by freedom, and by great events, To pitch new States as Old-World men pitch tents !" This larger America had marvelous physical advantages.
Stran 15 - July 1, 1862. They were to build a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. This was a complete change in the system of land bounties to aid in the building of railroads. The grant was direct to the corporation, thus avoiding the established rule of using a State as a trustee and agent of transfer. It had been fiercely contended prior...