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Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad

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by Walter R. Borneman


  Grattan, Virginia L. Mary Colter: Builder upon the Red Earth. Grand Canyon, Ariz.: Grand Canyon Natural History Association, 1992.

  Grodinsky, Julius. Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869–1893. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962.

  Hauck, Cornelius W. Narrow Gauge to Central and Silver Plume. Colorado Rail Annual. No. 10. Golden, Colo.: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1972.

  Hauck, Cornelius W., and Robert W. Richardson, eds. “The Santa Fe’s D&RG War No. 2.” Colorado Rail Annual. Golden, Colo.: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1965.

  Heimburger, Donald J., and Carl R. Byron. The American Streamliner: Postwar Years. Forest Park, Ill.: Heimburger House, 2001.

  ———. The American Streamliner: Prewar Years. Forest Park, Ill.: Heimburger House, 1996.

  Helmers, Dow. Historic Alpine Tunnel. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Century One Press, 1971.

  Hofsommer, Don L. The Southern Pacific, 1901–1985. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986.

  Jacobs, Timothy. The History of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Greenwich, Conn.: Bonanza Books, 1988.

  Kelsey, Harry E., Jr. Frontier Capitalist: The Life of John Evans. Denver: State Historical Society of Colorado and Pruett, 1969.

  Kennan, George. E. H. Harriman: A Biography. Vol. 1. Reprint of 1922 edition. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1967.

  Klein, Maury. The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

  ———. The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

  ———. Union Pacific: The Birth of a Railroad, 1862–1893. New York: Doubleday, 1987.

  ———. Union Pacific: The Rebirth, 1894–1969. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

  Kroeger, Brooke. Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist. New York: Times Books, 1994.

  Lavender, David. Bent’s Fort. New York: Doubleday, 1954.

  ———. Colorado River Country. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982.

  ———. The Great Persuader. New York: Doubleday, 1970.

  ———. River Runners of the Grand Canyon. Tucson: Grand Canyon Natural History Association and the University of Arizona Press, 1985.

  Lewis, Oscar. The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.

  Leyendecker, Liston Edgington. Palace Car Prince: A Biography of George Mortimer Pullman. Niwot, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, 1992.

  MacGregor, Bruce A., and Ted Benson. Portrait of a Silver Lady: The Train They Called the California Zephyr. Boulder, Colo.: Pruett, 1977.

  Malone, Michael P. The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864–1906. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.

  Martin, Albro. Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

  McLuhan, T. C. Dream Tracks: The Railroad and the American Indian, 1890–1930. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985.

  Middleton, William D. Landmarks on the Iron Road: Two Centuries of North American Railroad Engineering. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

  Miner, H. Craig. The St. Louis–San Francisco Transcontinental Railroad: The Thirty-fifth Parallel Project, 1853–1890. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1972.

  Myrick, David F. New Mexico’s Railroads: A Historical Survey. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.

  ———. Railroads of Arizona. Vol. 1. The Southern Roads. Berkeley, Calif.: Howell-North Books, 1975.

  ———. Railroads of Arizona. Vol. 4. The Santa Fe Route. Wilton, Calif.: Signature Press, 1998.

  ———. Railroads of Arizona. Vol. 5. Santa Fe to Phoenix. Berkeley and Wilton, Calif.: Signature Press, 2001.

  Norris, L. David, James C. Milligan, and Odie B. Faulk. William H. Emory: Soldier-Scientist. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1998.

  Ormes, Robert M. Railroads and the Rockies: A Record of Lines in and near Colorado. Denver: Sage Books, 1963.

  Orsi, Richard J. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

  Osterwald, Doris B. Rails Through the Gorge: A Mile by Mile Guide for the Royal Gorge Route. Hugo, Colo.: Western Guideways, 2003.

  Overton, Richard C. Gulf to Rockies: The Heritage of the Fort Worth and Denver–Colorado Southern Railways, 1861–1898. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1970.

  Palmer, William J. Report of Surveys Across the Continent, in 1867–’68, on the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-second Parallels, for a Route Extending the Kansas Pacific Railway to the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco and San Diego. Philadelphia: W. B. Selheimer, printer, 1869.

  Perkins, J. R. Trails, Rails, and War: The Life of General G. M. Dodge. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929.

  Pletcher, David M. The Diplomacy of Annexation: Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973.

  ———. Rails, Mines, & Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico, 1867–1911. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1958.

  Poling-Kempes, Lesley. The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West. New York: Paragon House, 1989.

  Saunders, Richard, Jr. Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970–2002. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003.

  ———. Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900–1970. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001.

  Shally, Dorothy, and William Bolton. Scotty’s Castle: Death Valley’s Fabulous Showplace. Yosemite, Calif.: Flying Spur Press, 1973.

  Signor, John R. The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company: Union Pacific’s Historic Salt Lake Route. San Marino, Calif.: Golden West Press, 1988.

  ———. Tehachapi: Southern Pacific–Santa Fe. San Marino, Calif.: Golden West Books, 1983.

  Snyder, Carl. American Railways as Investments. New York: Moody, 1907.

  Spearman, Frank H. The Strategy of Great Railroads. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904.

  Sprague, Marshall. The Great Gates: The Story of the Rocky Mountain Passes. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964.

  Stansbury, Howard. An Exploration to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.

  Stanton, Robert Brewster. Colorado River Controversies. 1932. Reprint, Boulder City, Nev.: Westwater Books, 1982.

  ———. Down the Colorado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.

  Strein, Robert, John Vaughan, and C. Fenton Richards, Jr. Santa Fe: The Chief Way. Santa Fe: New Mexico Magazine, 2001.

  Treadway, William E. Cyrus K. Holliday: A Documentary Biography. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1979.

  Wakeman, Frederic. The Hucksters. New York: Rinehart, 1946.

  Ward, James A. J. Edgar Thomson: Master of the Pennsylvania. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.

  Waters, L. L. Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1950.

  Wilkins, Tivis E. Colorado Railroads. Boulder, Colo.: Pruett, 1974.

  Williams, John Hoyt. A Great & Shining Road. New York: Times Books, 1988.

  Wilson, Neill C., and Frank J. Taylor. Southern Pacific: The Roaring Story of a Fighting Railroad. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1952.

  Winther, Oscar Osburn. The Transportation Frontier: 1865–1890. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

  Worster, Donald. A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  Wright, Lyle H., and Josephine M. Bynum, eds. The Butterfield Overland Mail. San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library Press, 1942.

  ARTICLES

  Barnes, Lela, ed. “Letters of Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, 1854–1859.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 6 (August 1937): 241–94.

  Bishop, William Henry. “Southern California.” Harper’s New Monthly magazine (December 1882): 4
5–65.

  Borneman, Walter R. “Ride the Historic Georgetown Loop.” American West 24, no. 3 (June 1987): 42–47.

  Chappell, Gordon. “Scenic Line of the World.” Colorado Rail Annual 8 (1970): 3–96.

  Crump, Spencer. “Western Pacific: The Railroad That Was Built Too Late.” Railway History Quarterly 1, no. 1 (January 1963): 1–48.

  Ellis, David M. “The Forfeiture of Railroad Land Grants, 1867–1894.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 33 (June 1946): 27–60.

  Farley, Alan W. “Samuel Hallett and the Union Pacific Railway Company in Kansas.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 25, no. 1 (Spring 1959): 1–16.

  Farnham, Wallace D. “The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.” Nebraska History 43 (September 1962): 141–67.

  ———. “The Weakened Spring of Government.” American Historical Review 67 (April 1963): 662–80.

  Fels, Rendigs. “American Business Cycles, 1865–79.” American Economic Review 41, no. 3 June 1951): 325–49.

  Greever, William S. “Railway Development in the Southwest.” New Mexico Historical Review 32, no. 2 (April 1957): 151–203.

  Hietter, Paul T. “ ‘No Better Than Murderers’: The 1889 Canyon Diablo Train Robbery and the Death Penalty in Arizona Territory.” Journal of Arizona History 47, no. 3 (Autumn 2006): 273–98.

  Hoyt, Franklin. “The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad.” Pacific Historical Review 20, no. 3 (August 1951): 227–39.

  ———. “San Diego’s First Railroad: The California Southern.” Pacific Historical Review 23, no. 2 (May 1954): 133–46.

  Klein, Maury. “In Search of Jay Gould.” Business History Review 52, no. 2 (Summer 1978): 166–99.

  Lawrence, George C. “The Western Pacific.” Railroad Age Gazette 45, no. 15 (September 11, 1908): 902–10.

  Le Massena, Robert A. “The Royal Gorge.” Denver Westerners Monthly Roundup 21, no. 11 (November 1965): 3–17.

  Lesley, Lewis B. “The Entrance of the Santa Fe Railroad into California.” Pacific Historical Review 8, no. 1 (March 1939): 89–96.

  ———. “A Southern Transcontinental Railroad into California: Texas and Pacific Versus Southern Pacific, 1865–1885.” Pacific Historical Review 5, no. 1 (1936): 52–60.

  Lipsey, John. “How Hagerman Sold the Midland in 1890.” Brand Book of the Denver Westerners, 1956: 266–85.

  ———. “J. J. Hagerman, Building of the Colorado Midland.” Brand Book of the Denver Posse of the Westerners for 1954: 95–115.

  Lyman, Edward Leo. “From the City of Angels to the City of Saints: The Struggle to Build a Railroad from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City.” California History 70 (Spring 1991): 76–93.

  Mock, S. D. “Colorado and the Surveys for a Pacific Railroad.” Colorado Magazine 17, no. 2 (March 1940): 54–63.

  ———. “The Financing of Early Colorado Railroads.” Colorado Magazine 18, no. 6 (November 1941): 201–9.

  Overmeyer, Philip Henry. “George B. McClellan and the Pacific Northwest.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 32 (1941): 3–60.

  Pletcher, David M. “The Building of the Mexican Railway.” Hispanic American Historical Review 30, no. 1 (February 1950): 26–62.

  ———. “General William S. Rosecrans and the Mexican Transcontinental Railroad Project.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 38 (March 1952): 657–78.

  Snell, Joseph W., and Don W. Wilson. “The Birth of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 34, no. 2 (Summer 1968): 113–42.

  ———. “The Birth of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad—Concluded.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 35, no. 3 (Fall 1968): 325–56.

  Spitzzeri, Paul R. “The Road to Independence: The Los Angeles and Independence Railroad and the Conception of a City.” Southern California Quarterly 83, no. 1 (Spring 2001):

  Van Horn, Kurt. “Tempting Temecula: The Making and Unmaking of a Southern California Community.” Journal of San Diego History 20, no. 1 (Winter 1974), accessed online at www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/74winter/temecula.htm.

  Ward, James. A. “Image and Reality: The Railway Corporate-State Metaphor.” Business History Review 55 (Winter 1981): 491–516.

  Zega, Michael E. “Advertising the Southwest.” Journal of the Southwest 43, no. 3 (Autumn 2001): 281–315.

  GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

  Butterfield Overland Mail–The Pinery. Guadalupe Mountains National Park brochure, 1988.

  Emory, W. H. Notes on a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. 30th Cong., 1st sess, Ex. Doc. 41.

  ———. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. 34th Cong., 1st sess., H.R. Exec. Doc. 135.

  Garrison, James, et al. Transcontinental Railroading in Arizona, 1878–1940: A Component of the Arizona Historic Preservation Plan. Prepared for the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, December 1989, by Janus Associates, Phoenix.

  Reports of the Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 33rd Cong., 2nd sess., H.R. Ex. Doc. 91 (cited as Pacific Railroad Reports).

  The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (cited as Official Records).

  PERSONAL PAPERS AND CORPORATE RECORDS

  Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver; cited as Santa Fe Collection by box and file folder (FF).

  William A. Bell Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver; cited as Bell Collection by box and file folder.

  Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver; cited as Denver and Rio Grande Collection by box and file folder.

  John Evans Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver; cited as Evans Collection by box and file folder.

  Timothy Hopkins Transportation Collection, Green Library, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California.

  Collis P. Huntington Papers, 1856–1901, microfilm edition in Western History Department, Denver Public Library, Denver; cited as Huntington Papers by series and reel number.

  David Sievert Lavender Papers, Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder.

  William Jackson Palmer Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver; cited as Palmer Collection by box and file folder.

  Robert F. Weitbrec Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver.

  UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATIONS AND PAPERS

  Benson, T. Lloyd, and Trina Rossman. “Re-assessing Tom Scott, the ‘Railroad Prince.’ ” A paper given for the Mid-America Conference on History, Furman University, September 16, 1995.

  Storey, Britt Allan. “William Jackson Palmer: A Biography.” Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1968.

  NEWSPAPERS

  Arizona Daily Citizen/Arizona Weekly Citizen (Tucson)

  Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)

  Arizona Sentinel (Yuma)

  Boston Herald

  Colorado Tribune (Denver)

  Colorado Weekly Chieftain (Pueblo)

  Commercial and Financial Chronicle

  Congressional Globe

  Daily Alta California (San Francisco)

  Denver Republican

  Denver Times

  Emporia (Kansas) News

  Engineering News

  Georgetown (Colorado) Courier

  Gunnison (Colorado) Review

  Hutchinson (Kansas) News

  Kansas Daily Commonwealth (Topeka)

  Kansas State Record (Topeka)

  Las Vegas (New Mexico) Daily Optic

  Las Vegas (New Mexico) Gazette

  Lone Star (El Paso, Texas)

  Los Angeles Evening Express

  Los Angeles Herald

  Los Angeles Times


  Mountain Mail (Salida, Colorado)

  New York Herald

  New York Times

  New York Tribune

  New York World

  Osage (Kansas) Chronicle

 

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