He undertook a survey to find a manageable route through the high and rugged Sierra Nevada and in presented his plan to Congress. Print Resources The following materials link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. B24 Table of contents A history of the transcontinental railroad. Includes extensive Notes and Bibliography sections. One of the earliest and most notable examples making the case for an overland route.
Available online from Hathi Trust External This report was required by an act passed in March to investigate the railroads that built the railroad. It includes a history of the construction.
Available online from Hathi Trust External incomplete set This twelve volume set done in preparation for the construction of the railroad examines different possible routes and also includes botany and zoological surveys.
Pacific railroad and telegraph by United States Congress. Call Number: HE I A3. A report by Congress on the necessity to connect the east and west coast with a railroad and telegraph lines as a way to maintain the US position on the Pacific coast, particularly in light of the discovery of gold.
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Digitized Image Collections Library of Congress If there's a specific image collection on the topic, use that. Century of Lawmaking The project includes the Journals of the House of Representatives and the Senate , including the Senate Executive Journal ; the Journal of William Maclay ; the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress , the Register of Debates , Congressional Globe , and Congressional Record ; the Statutes at Large ; the American State Papers ; and congressional bills and resolutions for selected sessions beginning with the 6th Congress in the House of Representatives and the 16th Congress in the Senate.
Can you get me a good boy? Come at 7 every morning. Go home at 8 every night. Light the fire. Sweep the rooms. Wash the clothes. Wash the windows. Sweep the stairs. Trim the lamps. I want to cut his wages. Many of the railroad's builders viewed the Plains Indians as obstacles to be removed.
General William Tecumseh Sherman wrote in "The more we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed the next year, for the more I see of these Indians the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers. In their eagerness for land, the two lines built right past each other, and the final meeting place had to be renegotiated.
Harsh winters, staggering summer heat and the lawless, rough-and-tumble conditions of newly settled western towns made conditions for the Union Pacific laborers—mainly Civil War veterans of Irish descent—miserable.
The overwhelmingly immigrant Chinese work force of the Central Pacific also had its fair share of problems, including brutal hour work days laying tracks over the Sierra Nevada Mountains they also received lower wages than their white counterparts. On more than one occasion, whole crews would be lost to avalanches, or mishaps with explosives would leave several dead. For all the adversity they suffered, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific workers were able to finish the railroad—laying nearly 2, miles of track—by , ahead of schedule and under budget.
Journeys that had taken months by wagon train or weeks by boat now took only days. Their work had an immediate impact: The years following the construction of the railway were years of rapid growth and expansion for the United States, due in large part to the speed and ease of travel that the railroad provided. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Louis Blues goaltender Glenn Hall. Jefferson Davis, president of the fallen Confederate government, is captured with his wife and entourage near Irwinville, Georgia, by a detachment of Union General James H.
By the s, the Central Pacific Railroad was, White said, virtually worthless. The railroad was, however, evidence of the promise of the relatively nascent profession of civil engineering, according to engineering historian Paul Giroux, who described the unprecedented scale of construction — often in challenging conditions — of the First Transcontinental Railroad to members of the Stanford Historical Society at their recent annual meeting.
The tales of their shady railroad business deals, as well as those of the Union Pacific Railroad, have lingered. Stanford, she said, was a visionary who believed in the promise of California. He was politically savvy and would serve both as California governor and U. It was a ruthlessly competitive business — and that was not unique to the Associates.
Jones said that Stanford approached every venture — business or otherwise — with a commitment to improvement. That approach can be seen in the California vineyards he created, the racehorses he raised and the Palo Alto farm he nurtured and — ultimately — the university he founded. For many years, Jones said, the university was deeply associated with the railroad. Students came from across the country to study railroad engineering.
A Stanford Daily article announced an exhibition at the Stanford Library on the California railroad from its earliest days, featuring maps, illustrations and copies of telegraphs. Its name has since lent heft to an annual alumni recognition called the Gold Spike Award. In addition, the Gov. The Gov. Stanford locomotive, brought to campus in , in the s went to the California State Railroad Museum, where it is on prominent display.
Jones said the Gov. Stanford locomotive was moved to the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento in the s, where it is available for public viewing. But the legacy of the Big Four has not faded.
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