The book promises to endure as the standard history of the Pacific railroad.

The Pacific Railroad was completed through the community in 1855.

No novelist could have created a more vibrant set of characters than those who built the Pacific railroad.

There he opposed the Pacific railroads, and introduced a postal telegraph bill.

Helped in the construction of the Texas & Pacific Railroad.

It was built in 1903 by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad.

He later became President of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad.

The track for the Pacific Railroad to Kirkwood was completed in 1853.

During his first term in Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads.

On December 8, 1873, the Texas and Pacific Railroad sold the first town lots for the future city.