Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad
(2016)
By:
Kreck, Dick
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Fulcrum Publishing : Made available through hoopla, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781555919528 (electronic bk.) MWT11778272, 1555919529 (electronic bk.) 11778272
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West
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