Today's installment concludes First North American Transcontinental Railroad Completed,our selection from The Union Pacific Railway by John P. Davis

Central Pacific had graded eighty miles to the east that it never would cover and the Union Pacific had wasted a million dollars on grading west of

The regular routine of business, dances, drunks, and fist fights met with a sudden interruption.Continuing First North American Transcontinental

The only settlements between Omaha and Sacramento in 1862 were those of the Mormons in Utah, and Denver and a few mining-camps in Colorado and

The natural obstacles presented by the mountains and desert land, the absence of timber on the prairies, of water in the mountains, and of both in the