“Clearly the Transcontinental Railroad would not have been completed without their ... Another temporary exhibit features photos of Chinese workers. Most are anonymous, as the exhibit explains, ...

Harper's Weekly reported on the progress of the transcontinental railroad throughout its construction. These excerpts, organized chronologically, report on conflicts with Native Americans ...

The arrival of the railroad and, with it ... effectively halting transcontinental communication. Later, the party returned to Julesburg and burned it to the ground. General Grenville Dodge ...