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Railroad's role in uniting the states, a Nebraska memory
In a Bicentennial reflection Clark Fuller traces the Union Pacific Railroad and the transcontinental telegraph as pivotal in linking the nation. He cites Lt Zebulon Pike, Lewis and Clark, the Oregon Trail, the Pony Express, and Omaha pioneers the Casement and Creighton families who built the line to Promontory Point.
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Clark Fuller
Thomas Jefferson
Louisiana Purchase
Mississippi River
Pacific Ocean
Mexico
Zebulon Pike
Jefferson
Missouri River
Republican River
Spain
Pike
United States
Great American Southwest
Coronado
Seven Cities
Cibola
California
San Francisco
Bunker Hill
Rocky Mountains
Bonneville
Ft Osage
Kansas City
Missouri and Platte Rivers
Laramie
Sweetwater
South Pass
Continental Divide
Pacific Coast
Pony Express
Lincoln
St Joe
Sacramento
Union Pacific Railroad
States
Omaha
West Coast
Union Pacific
Casement Brothers
Creightons
Nebraska
Dan
Jack Casement
Missouri
Jack
Promontory Point
Utah
Western Pacific
Dan Casement II
Manhattan
Kan
United States Army
Nebraska Plains
Thornburg
Colorado
Arlington
JS and
DT Casement
America
John Creighton
Creighton Brothers
Colorado Range
Thomas Durant
East
West
Midwest