Desperate Escape and Entangled Loyalties in Glencaid
A detachment of the Eighteenth Infantry trapped by Indians endures a three day siege with Gillis and his daughter killed. Hampton and the girl escape to the plains, later found by Seventh Cavalry Lt Brant who aids their perilous return. A complex web of loves, secrets, and a mob fire follows as Brant rescues Hampton and Mason and Naida nurses him after the hotel’s blaze.
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Heighteenth Infantry
Fort Bethune
Hampton
Gillis
Seventh Cavalry
Brant
Glencaid
Red Slavin
Phoebe Spencer
Miss Spencer
Naida
Rev. Wynkoop
Silent Murphy
Bob Hampton
Bslavin
Murphy
Robert Nolan
Maj
Brant, Sr
Slavin
Buck Mason
Bob
Mason
Gambler
Western Knight Rescue and a Love Confession
In Carter woods a staged rescue by Moffat and McNeil spirals into real danger as Rev. Wynkoop saves Miss Spencer while Brant confronts Naida over love and truth. Naida refuses marriage, declaring lasting love for Brant but that she cannot become his wife, leaving both hearts unresolved for now.
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Wynkoop
Moffat
Herndon
McNeil
Phoebe
Plain and
Long Pete Lumley
Jack
Pete
Long Pete
Carter Woods
Lumley
Jackard
Moffatt
Spencer
Wes
Bill
Sandy Winn
Old Bull Mountain
Howard Wynkoop
Miss Spencer
Mr. Wynkoop
Howard
Mr. Moffat
Mr. McNeil
Brant
Naida
Herndon House
Donald Brant
Hampton
Parting Hour Between Brant and Naida in Bitter Days
Lieutenant Brant endures bitter days as he navigates tension with Naida while nursing Hampton. An urgent dispatch sends forces marching toward Fort Abraham Lincoln amid reports of hostile forces led by Sitting Bull uniting in the Big Horn region as Gen. Cook advances from Nebraska.
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Brant
Hampton
Naida
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Sitting Bull
Big Horn
Gen. Cook
Nebraska
New Telemeter Aims to Cut Rail Disasters On Boston Line
An inventor touts a attachable telemeter for telegraph wires to reach any operator instantly along the Boston and Maine line. The device would halt trains at critical points by remote semaphore signals, even if the operator is absent or unreachable, reducing emergency delays and wrecks. It integrates with existing lines, requires no extra wires, and reports back if a signal is set.
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Boston & Maine
United States
America
Boston
Portland
The Railway Beautiful in Century Magazine
Sylvester Baxter argues for the railway beautification of the United States with rich illustrations. He praises German rail design, notes improvements around Chicago suburbs, and predicts broader adoption from end to end of the railroad, banishing ugliness for neatness and beauty in American tracks.
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Sylvester Baxter
Century Magazine
Germany
England
Baxter
United States
Chicago
Europe
Union
Washington
New York
Chicago Record Herald
Building Twelve Mile Tunnel Under Cascade Mountains
A Great Northern Railroad statement says a 12 mile tunnel is under construction with two large camps near Leavenworth developing electric power for J. J. Hill's line. A man who returned from the hills provided thereport noting the project and its siting.
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Cascade Mountains
Great Northern Railroad Company
Leavenworth
J. J. Hill
Speed Mania and the Duty of Care on Rail Travel
The piece debates whether travelers surrender safety rights to speed obsessed railways and whether companies can justify lax safeguards. It notes forcible restraint of suicide attempts, cites rail officials claiming advanced safeguards, yet observes a higher fatality rate among U S passengers versus Great Britain where faster trains exist and fewer accidents occur.
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New York
Chicago
Great Britain
British Trainmen’s Pay Low in Comparison to U S
The Rail way News London reports 1907 figures showing British railroads earned $18.5 million more gross but paid ordinary stockholders $595,000 less in dividends. Expenses rose $16.9 million, offsetting higher revenue, with British employes receiving far less than in the United States.
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United States
Railway News
London
America
Britain
Railroad Built on Ice Between Cronstadt and Oranienbaum
The article describes a winter railway laid on ice between Cronstadt and Oranienbaum used only in cold months. Its success inspires a planned similar route between Krementchug and Ekaterinoslav where summer steamboat traffic on the Dnieper connects them. The ice winter line offers a direct link when the usual route is blocked by ice.
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Cronstadt
Oranienbaum
Krementchug
Ekatarinoslav
Dnieper
Southern Railroad Expansion Surges in the South
Texas leads all states in railway mileage with 13 021 miles, about a thousand more than Illinois Mississippi and Tennessee. Florida and Arkansas exceed North Dakota in mileage as expansion keeps pace with industrial growth across the region.
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Southern Railroad
Texas
Illinois
Mississippi
Tennessee
Florida
Arkansas
North Dakota
South
Peculiar Railway Through the Adriatic Mountains
A railway north of the Adriatic built by the Austrian government to boost Trieste trade spans 130 miles and features 679 bridges and viaducts along with 49 tunnels.
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Adriatic Sea
Trieste
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Dob II
Dlacer
Randall Parrish
Hay Hedersessise
Mntiullibe LE
Cervera
Bill McNeil
Pete Lumley
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