From the site: The Roadrunner Chronicles - East Met West at Promontory Point - Utah
Last weekend we took a day trip from Hill AFB near Ogden, Utah to Promontory Point. Over the last four years of our Roadrunner adventure, I have been struck by the influence and impact of the railroads upon our United States. In 1869 at a then-unknown place upon the high desert in the wide open prairie - East met West and our country was joined together by the railroad. It changed everything. What had taken six months by ox and mule, now only took six days by rail. Troops and settlers sped west populating the country side which belonged to the Indians and buffalo. Trade and cities sprang up and expanded commerce and the push for Manifest Destiny. The wealth of ore and minerals and hides and fur moved East. &n ...Read more...
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