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| Title | Early Days on the Union Pacific |
| Abstract | Article (written by a resident of Kansas City, Kansas) about the origins and construction of the Union Pacific Railroad from Wyandotte, Kansas (part of Kansas City, Kansas) to Denver in the middle to late 1800s. Description of those prominent in organizing the railroad's route (including Senator Thomas Hart Benton and William Gilpin), competition between lines through Kansas with Nebraska, and change of names from the Kansas Pacific Railway Company in 1868 to Union Pacific Railroad Company in 1880 upon consolidation with the Union Pacific and Denver Pacific Railways. |
| Author | George W. Martin
John D. Cruise
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| Date | 1910 |
| Source | Kansas State Historical Society Collections |
| Location | Periodical |
| Volume | 11 |
| Page | 529-549 |
| Local Subject | Union Pacific Railway Company
Transportation
Railroads
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| Illustrations | No |
| Item Type | Magazine Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 123019 |
| CONTENTdm number | 18822 |
