KLASEY: Peopling the prairie
“I expected a large number of men from the East before this. There is a great demand for men all over this country,” wrote Chief Engineer Roswell Mason in a
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“I expected a large number of men from the East before this. There is a great demand for men all over this country,” wrote Chief Engineer Roswell Mason in a
On July 4, 1853, an Illinois Central work train moved slowly southward on steel rails laid the previous day. At what is now Hickory Street, the train came to a