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 ...

Nearly 150 years after the Golden Spike in Promontory Summit, Utah, completed this nation’s first transcontinental railroad ... This quiet New Mexico desert town has been transformed into ...

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 ...