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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 In 1859, Grenville Mellen Dodge, a railroad engineer, was asked by Lincoln, a politician from Illinois, what the best route for a Pacific railroad would be. Dodge replied that it would be from Council Bluffs out the Platte Valley.
#2 The transcontinental railroad was a dream of America, and it was made possible by the American engineers who were able to think outside the box and come up with new ways to deal with old problems.
#3 The transcontinental railroad was the greatest building project of the nineteenth century. It was built by Dodge and Lincoln, and it was designed to run almost straight out the forty-second parallel from Omaha, alongside the Platte Valley until it reached the Rocky Mountains and then over the mountains to meet the railroad coming east from California.
#4 Lincoln was one of the greatest railroad lawyers in the West. He was interested in the idea of a railroad that would connect the East Coast with the territories in the West.

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19th century

United States

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	08 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669351559
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights on Stephen E. Ambrose's Nothing Like It in the World
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In 1859, Grenville Mellen Dodge, a railroad engineer, was asked by Lincoln, a politician from Illinois, what the best route for a Pacific railroad would be. Dodge replied that it would be from Council Bluffs out the Platte Valley.

#2

The transcontinental railroad was a dream of America, and it was made possible by the American engineers who were able to think outside the box and come up with new ways to deal with old problems.

#3

The transcontinental railroad was the greatest building project of the nineteenth century. It was built by Dodge and Lincoln, and it was designed to run almost straight out the forty-second parallel from Omaha, alongside the Platte Valley until it reached the Rocky Mountains and then over the mountains to meet the railroad coming east from California.

#4

Lincoln was one of the greatest railroad lawyers in the West. He was interested in the idea of a railroad that would connect the East Coast with the territories in the West.

#5

Lincoln was a strong supporter of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, as well as the Alton and Sangamon Railroad. He was also a huge fan of the railroad system, and wanted the federal government to let the states use the proceeds from the sale of public lands to fund them.

#6

Lincoln was one of the foremost railroad lawyers in the West, and he worked on many cases regarding the rights of railroads to build bridges over rivers. He won the case in 1857, and the Supreme Court later upheld the decision.

#7

In 1859, Lincoln met Dodge in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and the IC was the largest rail system in the world. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was running trains to the Missouri River and laying tracks on the other side.

#8

The Pacific railroad surveys did the opposite of what Congress said it wanted. They presented a much more favorable picture of Western climate and resources than had previously been assumed. What was thought of as The Great American Desert was actually suitable for farming.

#9

In 1852, Dodge went to work for the IC. The railroad drove up the price of lands per acre from $1. 25 to $6 in 1853, and to $25 by 1856, the year it was completed. But the twenty-one-year-old Dodge was more interested in the Rock Island’s construction to the west than in the IC headed south.

#10

Dodge led a party of fourteen men, including a cook and a hunter. He hoped to make the Missouri before the snow fell. His expenses ran to $1,000 per month. He was pleased by the opportunity and overjoyed at the wilderness he was entering.

#11

In 1855, two men, Frederick Lander and his companion, came to Dodge and told him that the Pacific railroad was going to be built through his claim. Dodge and Lander had both been surveying for the government from the Washington Territory to the Missouri River.

#12

The growth of railroads in the United States was astounding. By 1854, the amount of completed railway had grown to 33,860 miles, with sixteen thousand more miles under construction. The route that was chosen for the transcontinental railroad was the Platte Valley Route.

#13

In 1857, Dodge went up the Platte River Valley on a third survey for Henry Farnam of the Rock Island Railroad. He got back to Council Bluffs on August 11, the day before Lincoln arrived in town.

#14

In 1859, Lincoln made a trip to Omaha, Nebraska, to see the landscape. He saw that there were no railroad tracks crossing each other, no houses, and only unbroken fields of wild grass and sunflowers. He predicted that there would be many railroads that would center there.

#15

Dodge went to Washington to help with the transcontinental railroad, but was only there to press Lincoln’s railroad plans.

#16

The Civil War was under way when Dodge joined the army. He was more concerned with the country staying together than with linking it together east and west. But the latter aim never left his mind or Lincoln’s.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The building of the transcontinental railroad was a necessity for the expansion of the United States. It was critical that a land communication be created between the mother country and the colonies, and this was not happening fast enough.

#2

Crocker was born on September 16, 1822, in Troy, New York. He began selling apples and oranges at nine years of age, then carried newspapers. He moved to Vermont to make a living, but struggled with poverty. He never went to any school beyond eighth grade.

#3

The journey across the Great Plains was extremely difficult, and the land was not suitable for grazing. Crocker and his men had to leave their horses and mules behind, and drive them two miles down the river to a meadow for the night.

#4

The journey was difficult and demanding, but the young men made it and reached California, where they were greeted by traders who had come from California to bring provisions to the Easterners.

#5

In the early 1800s, there were many young men getting ahead in America. Collis Huntington was one of them. He was born on October 21, 1821, in Litchfield Hills, Connecticut. He did well in school, but was defeated by grammar and spelling. At age fourteen, he went to New York City and began a career of buying and selling items.

#6

The trip across Panama was a miserable experience for everyone involved. The Americans, who were trading goods, had to sleep on a mud bank or in the canoes. The natives had only poles to push the canoes along, and they had to be on the way at dawn in order to utilize every moment of daylight.

#7

Only those with a youthful, physically fit, and ambitious spirit would attempt to cross Panama from the United States to the Pacific Ocean.

#8

The Lexington was at Brooklyn, at the Naval Yard, making preparations. The ship was ready on July 14, 1846, and a steam tug towed her to sea. Off the Lexington sailed, for the tip of the continent.

#9

The emigration road to California was long and dangerous, but it was a magnet for those who wanted to get there. In 1850, 55,000 emigrants headed west from the Missouri, but only 10,000 the next year. By 1860, more than 300,000 people had made the journey.

#10

The California that the Americans arrived in in the middle of the nineteenth century was a very different place than the one they left in the early twenty-first century. It was full of young, enterprising people who were making money however they could.

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