Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (71 page)

reputation of, 43, 270, 380

on route determinations, 112, 312, 313, 316, 317, 327, 330-31, 339, 340, 341

subsidy bonds obtained by, 333-34, 335

wagon road owned by, 76

on western sea route via Panama, 48-51

Huntington, Elizabeth Stoddard, 48

Huntington, Solon, 48, 49

Hurd, M. E., 256, 258

Hyde, Orson, 284

Illinois, railroad construction in, 29

Illinois Central Railroad Company (IC), 29-30, 32, 99

Indian hostilities:

Chinese workers' fears of, 310

extermination policies as response to, 223, 266-67

military management of, 130-31, 141, 174, 183, 184, 211, 215, 265

newspaper coverage on, 214

peace councils on, 225-26, 266

raiding party thievery in, 209, 214

sabotage activities and, 222-23, 227, 266

UP construction and, 132, 135, 136, 141, 172-73, 174, 183, 209, 211, 214-16, 220, 221, 263, 264-67

Indians:

competitions arranged with, 209-10

friendly alliances with, 172, 186, 265-66

as railroad laborers, 133

territorial dispossession of, 173, 225-26

tribal conflicts among, 265-66

UP route through lands of, 20

Interstate 80, 127, 136
n,
220, 326

Iowa, railroad routes in, 32-34,
126

Irish laborers, 18, 21, 118-20, 296, 327, 349, 378

iron supplies, 147

Ives, Butler, 201, 202, 291, 292, 312, 340

Jackson, Andrew, 42

Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 80

James W. Davis and Co., 360

Jefferson, Thomas, 43, 100, 292

Jensen, Oliver, 64

Jenson, Andrew, 284

Johnson, Andrew, 163, 164, 170, 174, 184, 194, 225, 238, 255, 330, 334

Joyce, Patrick, 349

J.S. & D.T. Casement, 171

Judah, Anna Ferona Pierce, 19, 61, 64, 101

artwork of, 65, 68, 75, 77

background of, 55

on Big Four management conflicts, 108-9, 114, 124

on CP financial backing, 70, 71, 72

on promotion of transcontinental railroad, 58, 59, 65,
66,
67, 68

on railroad completion ceremony, 368

on Strong, 69-70

Theodore Judah's death and, 115, 116

on Theodore Judah's engineering skill, 55-56

Judah, Charles, 56

Judah, Theodore, 19, 55-82, 101-17, 368

as architect of CP, 43

background of,
55

Big Four conflicts with, 103-6, 108-9, 110-14, 115-16, 117, 124

construction schedule projected by, 102

corporate position of, 74, 114

CP holdings of, 105, 112, 113, 114

death of, 115-17

engineering skills of, 55-56, 61-62, 116-17

financial investors cultivated by, 66, 70-73

government lobbying of, 59-61, 64-68, 75-76, 77-81, 308

marriage of,
see
Judah, Anna Ferona Pierce

railroad promotions by, 59-61, 104

Sacramento Valley Railroad designed by, 56, 57-58, 62, 111

salary of, 112, 114

Sierra Nevada route surveyed by, 67, 68-70, 72, 73, 74-75, 81, 101, 104, 109-10, 111, 127, 146, 308

on Summit Tunnel, 244

transcontinental railroad planned by, 56, 58-59, 63, 382

trestles proposed by, 154

Judd, Norman, 31, 38, 39, 40

Julesburg, Colo.,
168,
184

vice in, 218, 219-20, 228

Jupiter,
361, 362, 363, 366-67

Kasson, John, 39, 40

Kearney City, Nebr., 176, 184

Kennedy, Michael, 349

Killeen, Edward, 349

King, Clarence, 145-46

Klein, Maury, 92, 95, 186-87, 213, 326, 380

Koopmanschap (labor contractor), 152, 161

Lander, Frederick, 32, 34-35, 36

Lane, Joseph,
65

Laramie, Wyo., 221,
251
, 262, 271

Lathrop, J., 256, 257

Lee, Robert E., 87, 96, 97, 110, 114, 123, 158, 292, 356

Lee Chew, 152-53

Leete, B. F., 71

Lemon, David, 266

Leonardo da Vinci, 26

Lewis, J. C., 308-9

Lewis, Meriwether, 19, 38, 42, 59, 100, 127, 143, 292, 356

Lexington,
51-52

Liberty Loans, 165

Lincoln, Abraham, 37, 76

background of, 26-27

Civil War progress and, 41, 77, 83, 97, 98, 123, 130, 272

congressional term of, 28

death of, 133

in election campaigns, 23, 27, 39-40, 67, 69, 70, 123

law career of, 29-30

as public speaker, 41, 89, 98, 99

Pullman car built for, 185, 226, 274

route choices considered by, 24, 31, 38-39, 87, 89, 91, 95, 98, 128, 270

Sierra Nevada limits determined by, 108, 149

on slavery, 36, 104, 250

standard gauge chosen by, 95, 180, 347

as supporter of railroads, 18, 19, 27-29, 39, 40, 41, 79, 80, 85, 87-88, 90, 94, 95, 98, 250, 270-71, 382

on UP construction, 86-88, 132

Lincoln, Robert Todd, 185

lobbying, 40, 59-61, 64-68, 75-76, 77-81, 95-96, 193-94, 196, 308, 321-22, 333-34, 376, 379

Lockwood, E. O, 209

locomotives, 307

casualties caused by, 268-69, 325-26

cost of, 117, 147, 301

fires sparked from, 303

Indians' competition with, 210

smoke produced by, 24

speed of, 268

steam power of, 32, 42, 221

technological improvements of, 25, 28, 57, 268

weight of, 57, 115, 117

Lodgepole Creek, 131, 212,
251,
271, 344

Lone Tree Station, passenger service initiated to, 187, 188

Loomis, Augustus Ward, 162

Louisiana Purchase, 18, 292, 356

Loup Fork Bridge, 175, 187, 190

Loup River, 138-39,
168,
174

McCallum, Daniel C, 99-100

McClellan, George B., 77, 79, 80, 103, 158, 292

McCormick, Cyrus H., 140

McCulloch, Hugh, 313, 333, 334

McDougall, James A., 77, 78

McDowell, Irvin, 77

McLaughlin, Charles, 113

McNamara, Fred, 349

McWade (railroad worker), 328-29

Madden, D. W, 123

Mallory, Benjamin, 363

M&M (Mississippi and Missouri Railroad), 32-33, 34, 37, 39

Marsh, Charles, 74

Maxwell, James, 140-41, 293-94

Merriman, Halsey, 93

Mexican War, 51, 52, 356, 364

Meyer, Hugo, 377

Mills, Darius O., 379

Mills, Morris, 268, 269

mining:

Chinese immigrants in, 150

railroad workers' defections to, 107, 119, 121, 148, 154

Minkler, Henry H., 198

Mississippi and Missouri Railroad (M&M), 32-33, 34, 37, 39

Mississippi River, bridge over, 30

Missouri, in Civil War, 98, 130

Missouri Bill (railroad worker), 199, 200

Missouri River, 33-34, 37,
168,
381

freezing of, 173, 207

railroad bridge over, 30, 188, 260, 373

supplies transported across, 20, 133, 173, 175, 181, 373

Mobile and Ohio Railroad, 85

Mohawk & Hudson, The,
27

Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, 25

Montague, Samuel Skerry:

background of, 110

Chinese workers admired by, 152, 164

at completion ceremony, 367

construction reports made by, 124, 203

as CP engineer, 116, 117, 118, 206, 291, 306

on quality vs. pace of progress, 312

route improvements incorporated by, 124, 162-63

tunnel labor shifts organized by, 160

worker defections regretted by, 119

Montana, gold mining in, 129

Monument Point, Utah, 255, 290-91, 313, 316, 345

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 376

Mormons:

leadership of, 278, 279, 280

polygamy practiced by, 281

population levels of, 280

as railroad laborers, 189, 242, 261, 281-91, 294-95, 316, 327
n,
329

westward route of, 33, 36, 279

Mormon War, 63

Morrill, Justin, 79

Morrill Land Grant Act, 79
n

Morris, Isaac, 252

Morris, Thomas B., 338

Morse, John, 113

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
(King), 145-46

Murphy, R. A., 363

Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 115, 170

Nebraska:

farming in, 169, 212

railroad routes in, 167-92,
168,
212

silver mining in, 148

statehood of, 172

UP land grants in, 211-12

weather extremes of, 207

Nevada:

CP line across, 297-317, 299, 343

Great Desert of, 309-10

statehood of, 18, 123

Nevada Central Railroad, 114

Newcastle, trestle bridge at, 154

New York Central Railroad, 99, 158

Niagara Gorge Railroad,
55-56, 69

Nichols, H. K., 141

nitroglycerin, 200-201, 235-36, 288, 328

Nobel, Alfred, 200, 201

North Platte River,
168,
223

railroad bridges over, 183, 187, 262

Nounan, Joseph, 285, 295

Nye, James, 339

Ogden, William B., 84

Ogden, Utah, 254, 255, 277, 286, 290-91, 296, 319, 327, 335

as UP-CP meeting, 339-40, 341, 371-72

“O'Halloran's Luck” (Benét), 217-18

Omaha, Nebr.:

growth of, 167-69

oxbow route south of, 132

supply routes to, 133, 276-77, 373

as UP terminus, 87, 89-90, 91,
168,
184, 186

opium, 153, 162

Oregon Short Line, 225, 377

Orr, J. M., 295

Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859, An
(Greeley), 39

oxen, supply wagons drawn by, 234

Pacific,
115

Pacific Railroad Act (1862), 77-81, 83, 89, 94, 101-2, 108, 111, 147, 253-54, 257, 270-71, 306, 370

Pacific Railroad Act (1864), 94-96, 123, 143, 147, 254, 271

Pacific Railroad Museum,
66,
67

Pacific Railway Commission, U.S., 301

Palisade Canyon, 306

Panama, sea routes via, 49-50, 51, 52, 147, 249

Panama Canal, 17

paper money, 102

Partridge, A. P., 206, 237

“Passage to India” (Whitman), 358, 370

passenger service, 121-22, 124, 148-49, 187, 203, 222, 306-7, 323-25

Patterson, J. W., 185

Pawnee, 172, 173, 186, 265-66

Pawnee Killer (Cheyenne chief), 222, 225, 226

Pennsylvania, rail manufacture in, 28

Pennsylvania Fiscal Agency, 92-93

Perkins, J. R., 38,
85

pile driver, 107

Platte River Valley, 36-37, 87, 130-31, 140-43,
168,
183, 189, 212

Plum Creek, Indian attack near, 222-23, 225

Polk, James K, 42

polygamy, 281

Pony Express, 76

Poor, Henry V, 26, 82, 84, 89, 226, 231

Pope, John, 173

Populist Party, 80

postcombat trauma, 218

Powell, John Wesley, 275
n

Practical Plan for Building the Pacific Railroad, A
(Judah), 59-60

prairie dogs, 141

Pratt, Milando, 293

Price, Hiram, 94

Progressive Party, 80

Promontory, Utah, 316, 317,
319,
327, 352, 353

Promontory Mountains, 202, 255, 296, 327, 332-33, 338, 350

Promontory Summit, 362-63, 371, 372

prostitution, 217, 218, 219, 269

Pullman, George, 186

Pullman Palace Sleeping Car Company, 185, 369-70

Pusey, W.H.M., 23, 38, 39

rail chair, 57

railroads:

building costs of, 57, 133

Cheyenne museum on, 221

consolidation of, 246

curves on, 57, 78

development engendered by, 167-69, 176

financing of, 58

inclines climbed by, 57, 66, 125

land grants for, 30

management systems of, 99-100

military construction of, 84-85, 96

operating accidents of, 268-69

passenger conditions in, 24-25, 222

profitability of, 58

speed of, 57

state regulations developed on, 29-30

tax exemptions given to, 29

technological improvements of, 268

track structure of, 57

U.S. growth of, 28, 29, 35, 133-34, 371

as vehicle of U.S. expansion, 25
see also
Central Pacific Railroad; transcontinental railroad; Union Pacific Railroad

railroad workers,
see
construction workers

rails, cost of, 301

rain, 208, 212, 361

Ralston, William, 292

Rawlins, John A., 220, 223-24, 344, 367

Rawlins Springs, Wyo., 224,
251,
262

Red Desert, 223,
251

Redfield, William, 27

Reed, Peter, 40, 84

Reed, Samuel B., 349

in administrative hierarchy, 172, 174, 176, 187, 211, 273, 286

at completion ceremony, 361, 363, 364, 365, 366

as construction superintendent, 170, 172, 174-76, 183, 190, 227, 254, 256-61

on CP rivalry, 258-59

on Indian threat, 132, 183, 227

management conflict noted by, 212

overwork of, 258, 324, 330

rates of progress reported by, 176, 208, 261

on Salt Lake City, 129

in UP surveying parties, 91, 128, 135, 144, 220, 279

on vice, 218, 257-58

weather conditions monitored by, 207-8

on westward U.S. migration, 129

on Young's construction contract, 261, 279, 282, 283, 284, 289, 290, 294

Reeder, Clarence, 287

Reno, Jesse Lee, 304

Reno, Nev., 299, 304, 308, 311

Republican Party, 23, 39-40, 66, 67, 71, 100

Rhodes, W. H., 311-12

Richardson, Albert D., 159-60, 278

Richardson, H. H., 380

riding bosses, 201

Riegel, Robert E., 105

rifles, 264

Robinson, L. L., 111, 122-23

Rockefeller, John D., 270

Rocket,
27

Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, 30

Rock Island Railroad Company, 24, 32, 35, 36, 40, 41