Santa Fe : the railroad that built an empire /
The dream of Cyrus K. Holliday for a great railroad in the Southwest was based on the fabulous legend of the old Santa Fe Trail over which, from the time of the Conquistadores, had come the riches of New Spain : embroidered shawls, the plumes of tropical birds, laces, sugar, wine and silk. Across th...
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New York :
Random House,
©1945.
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Table of Contents:
- Trails to treasure lands
- The dirt flies at last
- Colonel Holliday heads West
- Steel across the prairie
- Into the Rockies
- The prairie blooms
- The coming of Fred Harvey
- Headed for trouble
- "Seize and hold that pass!"
- Guns in Royal Gorge
- Unlocking an empire
- California, here we come!
- The invasion of Chicago
- North from the Gulf
- Oklahoma!
- Slow! Rough track!
- Down through Arizona
- Mr. Ripley fights it through
- The coming of the diesels
- Tales along the track
- The trail that is always new
- Appendix: I. Who, when and where ; II. Santa Fe town names ; III. Railroad slang ; IV. Santa Fe Departments ; V. Trains ; VI. Some Santa Fe firsts ; VII. Financial ; VIII. Chronological development of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System ; IX. Santa Fe presidents.