Here was manifest destiny wrought in iron ... Not everyone would benefit from that transformation. The transcontinental railroad was not the beginning of white settlers' battles with Native ...

Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to ...

But whatever direction they travel, they move closer with every step to a “Manifest Destiny ... A triumph of the human spirit, the transcontinental railroad opens a new era in the West ...

It provided government support for the building of first railroad to link the east and ... checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence ...