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Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note
- Westward Ho!
- A Woman’s Place
- Bullwhackers
- Indians!
- “A Great Purpose”
- “The Grandest Enterprise Under God”
- “Hell on Wheels”
- Milepost 0.0: Omaha
- Milepost 291.0: North Platte
- Milepost 377.4: Julesburg
- Milepost 516.4: Cheyenne
- Milepost 572.8: Laramie
- Milepost 946.0: Bear River City
- Milepost 1056.6: Corinne
- Milepost 1084.4: Promontory
- Travel by Train
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author