Category: History - American
It would appear that Thomas Jefferson is entitled to the credit of being the first to take action towards the opening of a road or route between the eastern states and the Pacific Coast. While he was in France in 1779 as American Envoy to the Court of Versailles he met one Joh...
The preceding chapters in tracing the history of the Union Pacific Railroad cover in a measure the preliminary events leading up to the building of the Central Pacific Railroad,...
5. Chapter 5As we saw in our last chapter, ground was broken at Omaha, December 2nd, 1863. This, however, was more in the nature of a jollification on the part of the citizens of Omaha over...
9. Chapter 9Conflicting Interest on Location--Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Chartered By Kansas--Plans to Connect With the Union Pacific at the Hundredth Meridian--Supplementary Charter 1...
7. Chapter 7Their Material and Methods--Oakes Ames (Financier)--George Francis Train (Promoter)--John A. Dix (First President)--Thomas C. Durant (Vice President and President)--Granville M....
6. Chapter 6The country through which the Union Pacific Railroad was built was the hunting grounds of the Pawnee, Sioux, Arapahoes, Crows, Blackfeet, Bannock, Snake and Shoshones, the first...
1. Chapter 1It would appear that Thomas Jefferson is entitled to the credit of being the first to take action towards the opening of a road or route between the eastern states and the Pacif...
3. Chapter 3When the Pacific Railroad Bill passed Congress and received the President's signature in 1862, there was a well organized company to take hold of the western or California end....
11. Chapter 11Upon the completion of the Union Pacific the rates for both freight and passengers were fixed at what now seems a very high figure. Thus passenger fares locally were ten cents p...
8. Chapter 8By the terms of the supplementary Charter of 1864, a great incentive was given the two Companies, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad to get down as grea...
2. Chapter 2Commencing with the session of 1835, when a memorial on the subject of railroad communication between Lake Michigan and the Pacific Coast, was presented by Hartwell Carver, up t...
4. Chapter 4The first move towards the construction of the road was the selection of an eastern terminus which by the Charter was left to the President of the United States. This was fixed...
10. Chapter 10In the original plan for the Union Pacific Railroad it was the intention that the line would run through Denver and from there directly West across the mountains to Salt Lake. W...