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Rival Rails

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Rival Rails: The Race to Build the Transcontinental Railroad [1863 to 1869]

The U.S. government pitted two companies—the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads to enlist investors, politicians, engineers, surveyors  and immigrants to build the first transcontinental railroad,   an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision and courage.

 

Start at 1:22

 

 

Clyde Osmer DeLand, “The First Locomotive. Aug. 8th, 1829. Trial Trip of the "Stourbridge Lion," 1916, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c09364/.

Clyde Osmer DeLand, “The First Locomotive. Aug. 8th, 1829. Trial Trip of the “Stourbridge Lion,” 1916, via Library of Congress.

 

 

 

 

The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862  " An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes."

 

Transcontinental Railroad Visionary - "Crazy Judah"  RPI graduate Troy 1863

 

Video Noteshttp://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-trains

 

 

The Leaders 

 

The Laborers

 

The Land Grants

 

The Lasting Impact

 

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 "Across the Continent Westward the Course of Empire takes its way" 

 

 

A review of Native American relations 

 

 

1830 to 1860 Strained Relations with Native Americans
Relations with Indians quickly deteriorate WHY?

1 Resource competition  - White settlement of the west, building the transcontinental Railroad, the desire for land as a resource…Native Americans are in the way and the Army is sent to pacify them

 

2. ALL Native Americans not on reservations are considered hostile regardless of status. If Indians are not in direct control, they are swept up in the movement.

 

3. Western Settlement is disrupting the patterns of Native American life – eating away at their livelihood

 

 

 

 
REEL History "Dances with Wolves" 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Cost of Buffalo 

 

Commercial hunters wanted only the skins, so left the rest of the animal to rot. Bones would be gathered and shipped to the East for various uses. Mainly it was the army that helped realize slaughter of the herds

 

 

"Everything the Kiowas had came from the buffalo .... Most of all, the buffalo was part of the Kiowa religion. A white buffalo calf must be sacrificed in the Sun Dance. The priests used parts of the buffalo to make their prayers when they healed people or when they sang to the powers above. So, when the white men wanted to build railroads, or when they wanted to farm or raise cattle, the buffalo still protected the Kiowas. They tore up the railroad tracks and the gardens. They chased the cattle off the ranges. The buffalo loved their people as much as the Kiowas loved them. There was war between the buffalo and the white men. The white men built forts in the Kiowa country, and the woollyheaded buffalo soldiers shot the buffalo as fast as they could, but the buffalo kept coming on, coming on, even into the post cemetery at Fort Sill. Soldiers were not enough to hold them back. Then the white men hired hunters to do nothing but kill the buffalo. Up and down the plains those men ranged, shooting sometimes as many as a hundred buffalo a day. Behind them came the skinners with their wagons. They piled the hides and bones into the wagons until they were full, and then took their loads to the new railroad stations that were being built, to be shipped east to the market. Sometimes there would be a pile of bones as high as a man, stretching a mile along the railroad track. The buffalo saw that their day was over. They could protect their people no longer. "

 

Old Lady Horse of the Kiowa Nation

 

 

 

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The painting depicts the ceremony of the driving of the "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit, UT,

on May 10, 1869, joining the rails of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-trains

 

 

Related image

 

http://www.mappery.com/US-College-and-University-Land-Grant-Map

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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