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Title: The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad
Its Projectors, Construction and History

Author: W. F. Bailey

Release Date: September 14, 2007 [EBook #22598]

Language: English

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The Story of the
First Trans-continental
Railroad

Its projectors, construction
and history

"I Fed the Men who Built It"

Compiled and Published by
W. F. BAILEY

[Illustration: Buffalo]

Copies of this work may be procured at $2.00 each from either the
Compiler, Fair Oaks, California, or from the Printers, the Pittsburgh
Printing Co., 518-520 Seventh Avenue, Pittsburgh, Penna.

Copyright 1906
BY
W. F. BAILEY

PRESS OF
PITTSBURGH PRINTING CO.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Chapter Page

I. The Project and its Projectors, 9

II. The Proposition in Congress, 21

III. Mostly Financial, 31

IV. Commencement of the Work, 42

V. Progress Made, 50

VI. Indian Troubles during Construction, 69

VII. The Builders, 79

VIII. Completion of the Line, 92

IX. The Kansas Division (Kansas Pacific Ry.)