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 ...

“If one argues that history is sort of a prism—that you look at the past in order to understand the present and the future—go no further than the transcontinental railroad,” says ...

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