35-xx-xx ep22Grenville Dodge and Leland Stanford

Frontier fighters, clear fighters, devoted sons and ardent champions of those daring deeds which brought fame and fortune to the West.

One of the most thrilling epics in the history of the West and Southwest was the magnificent achievement of spanning the continent by the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroad. Behind this great epic feat there was a pitched battle of men fighting feverishly against time, the elements in indians and for the formative years this great saga of sweat and steel was

boisterously chatted against the background of the civil war one night before the fall of ixburg kernold grenville dodge was suddenly ordered to washington the business was marked urgent the signature was that of a bermain lee can the president remarks to his wife mary tod lee can i've sent for grenville dodge arse and washington to advise you about the union specific railroads is mary but

They're not honest men. Under the railroad act of 1862, we can start building now. They have in California. We haven't here because every congressman wants the railroad to start in his state. If it were small enough, he'd like to have it puff out right from his own backyard.

Oh, hey, Lincoln. How can you keep on joking when you got a war in a Transcontinental Railroad on your hand? No, not on my hands, Mary. In my hands. The Civil War in my right hand, and the Transcontinental railroads my left and I guess I'll manage to juggle them both.

Oh, Colonel Dads for his appointment, Mr. President. Oh, I'll see him. Nitin and war go together, but they're not nitin and railroads. I had no intention of saying, Abram. Bring the people of the West face to face with the people of these.