History of the Union Pacific Railway, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from History of the Union Pacific Railway, Vol. 2 The first railway to the Pacific claimed the attention of the country on two distinct bases - as an element in our political history, and as a commercial enterprise. In the early sixties the leading argument in favor of building it was the necessity of strengthening in their allegiance to the Union the states on the Pacific coast. Since the completion of the road in 1869 the commercial importance has been the obvious one. It was, moreover, the commercial features of the scheme, and only in a minor way the political ones, that inspired the early agitation for a road. In this agitation, which stretches far back of the Civil War, it is interesting to trace the evolution of the plan for connecting the two oceans by rail, and to see how the road was considered at first desirable, then important, and at last necessary. The spirit of unrest which led to the discovery of new lands and new routes to old ones during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was slow to die out. The commercial spirit of Europe which inspired the quest for a new sea route to India did not subside with the finding of an intervening continent and the subsequent failure to find a Northwest Passage. If there was no waterway, a land route was demanded. Explorers had not been slow to trace the great natural waterway leading into the heart of the continent furnished by the Great Lakes, but advances west of Lake Superior were inconsiderable. Thus far the French had led; here they stopped. The completion of the task was reserved for Anglo-Saxon genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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