“A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building to make it stand.” – Mark Twain The Central Pacific Railroad: A Trip Across the… New York: T. Nelson and sons, 1870 F594 C46 This is one in a series of pictorial guide-books published by T. Nelson and...
“‘Let us have peace.’ The expressions of these kindly feelings were not restricted to a section of the country, nor to a division of the people. They came from individual citizens of all nationalieties; from all denominations — the Protestant, the Catholic, and the Jew;...
“Look at me! I’m the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother’s side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar’l of...