Violence was a fact of life in the Hell on Wheels towns that followed the Union Pacific's end of track. During the Hell on Wheels heyday of Cheyenne, Wyoming, gunfights were so common that the loca...

"The one moral, the one remedy for every evil, social, political, financial, and industrial, the one immediate vital need of the entire Republic, is the Pacific Railroad." "How dare you try to hog...

From Here to ThereEstimated time and cost of getting from New York to San Francisco in 1865: several months and up to $1,000. Estimated time and cost of getting from New York to San Francisco in 18...

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buffalo The American Great Plains were famous in the early-19th century for the magnificent buffalo herds that grazed there, but by the beginning of the 20th century, those herds had dwindled from...