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Iron Horse Signals Death of Old West and World Change
Dan R. Conway narrates the rise of the transcontinental railroad, from early efforts to 1869 Promontory Summit. The piece links the Union Pacific and Central Pacific builds to the end of the Old West, the Indian wars, and the birth of a transformed America with vast economic and global impact.
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Iron Horse
America
United States
Mississippi River
Pacific Ocean
International Boundary Line
Gulf of Mexico
Redmen
Brotherhood of Free Trappers
Union Pacific Railway Company
Watt
Richard Trevethick
London
George Stephenson
Killingworth
Stockton and
Darlington
England
Peter Cooper
Baltimore and Ohio
Stephensons
Horatio Allen
Robert Mills
Maryland
Virginia
South Carolina
Congress
Sidney Breese
Committee On
Pacific Lands
Asa Whitney
New York
Whitney
Europe
Orient
China
Japan
India
Lake Superior
Rockies
Omaha
Union Pacific
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic States
West
Mississippi
Pacific
Union
Atlantic
trans-Mississippi
Union Pacific- Central Pacific
Promontory
Utah
Central Pacific
Salt Lake
California
Stanford
Central, Pacific
Northern Pacific
Gold Creek
Montana
Northwest
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