Chinese laborers at work with pick and shovel wheelbarrows and one horse dump carts filling in under the long secret town trestle ... no further than the transcontinental railroad,” says ...

January 7: Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux raiders ravage the would-be railroad town of Julesburg, Colorado, in retaliation for Sand Creek. They destroy telegraph wire in Platte Valley, then return ...

The arrival of the railroad and, with it ... Retribution fell 39 days later upon the frontier town of Julesburg, Colorado. An assembly of 1,000 Sioux, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne — survivors ...

On May 10, 1869, the transcontinental railroad was completed, finally allowing travel throughout the United States via train. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in ...

where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. He is the author of Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic ...

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Union Pacific has unveiled its Abraham Lincoln commemorative locomotive, honoring the president who ...

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