All throughout Colorado there has been many developments and expansions. One of these developments is the railroad system. Railroads were and still are such an essential means of transportation for people as well for industries involving coal and fuel, and many other things. There are many key players and developers that took part in revitalizing Colorado in the 1870s. Some of these key players that contributed to the territory’s growth were William A.H. Loveland, Edward L. Berthoud, Henry M. Teller, and William Jackson Palmer.
William A.H. Loveland of Golden, Colorado was the president of the Colorado Central Railroad alongside Edward L. Berthoud and Henry M. Teller. These businesspeople worked together and proposed the Colorado Central Railroad as a way to rekindle the territory’s growth. Their idea was to build a railroad from Golden to Cheyenne. The construction of this railroad would be linked to the Union Pacific and would take way in 1868. Though the construction of this railroad began right before the 1870s, it is still an essential piece of Colorado’s territory and growth (Abbott, Leonard, Noel, pp. 72, 2013). Amongst these men were other key players that contributed to the growth of Colorado’s territory. One of these men was William Jackson Palmer.
William Jackson Palmer was one of the main contributors of Colorado’s development. He built a railroad that extended all the way from Denver to the Rio Grande. He opened up new opportunities for both the Southern and Western portions of Colorado. The Denver and Rio Grande railroad secured much of Colorado’s territory as he purchased a lot of the real estate along the path of Denver to Rio Grande (Abbott, Leonard, Noel, pp. 76-79, 2013). The opportunities were popping up lef...
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...well opened up a lot of opportunities in Colorado’s territory and made it apparent to “enemies” where the territory line is.
Julia Archibald Holmes was a twenty-year-old prospector. She was a major advocate of women’s rights and wore the “American costume” very proudly as she walked to Pikes Peak all the way from Kansas. She then was named the first Anglo-American woman on August 5th, 1858 when she reached the top of Pikes Peak (Abbott, Leonard, Noel, pp. 45, 2013). Julia Holmes made an impact on others as it appeared she had no limits; climbing Pikes Peak, actively supporting women’s rights, and willing to walk anywhere and everywhere to get to where she needed to be to succeed.
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The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 is one of the most pivotal points in American History. The massive event entailed: American settlers performing their best bull impression. They made Oklahoma seem as if it were painted in the color red. A jaw-dropping amount of land settled in a day. Finally, to a victimized community that was on the verge of drowning in a sea of unwanted roommates. Oklahoma’s great land rush gave America the space to stretch out their territory, even though it nearly wiped out the Native Americans' land.
In Henry George’s article, What the Railroad Will Bring Us, it discusses the main social, political, and economic transformations that the trans-continental railroad would bring to the state of California. More importantly, he discusses not only the benefits, but also discusses the major drawbacks with the arrival of the railroad. Henry George stated the railroad would be the “greatest work of the age” (297). With a railroad stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, multiple benefits would be brought to the state of California. First, the railroad will not only create a new means of transportation across the United States, it additionally would also become “one of the greatest material prosperity” of its time (298). This means more people, more houses,
This had farmers in distress, for they were losing more money than they were making. Farmers’ incomes were low, and in order to make a profit on what they produced, they began to expand the regions in which they sold their products. This was facilitated through the railroads, by which through a series of grants from the government as contracted in the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, were made possible; which latter lead to the boom of rail roads in 1868-1873.... ... middle of paper ...
When writing William Cooper's Town, Alan Taylor connects local history with widespread political, economic, and cultural patterns in the early republic, appraises the balance of the American Revolution as demonstrated by a protrusive family's background, and merge the history of the frontier settlement with the visualizing and reconstituting of that experience in literature. Taylor achieves these goals through a vivid and dramatic coalescing of narrative and analytical history. His book will authoritatively mandate and regale readers in many ways, especially for its convincing and memorable representation of two principles subjects- William Cooper, the frontier entrepreneur and town builder, and his youngest son, the theoretical James Fenimore Cooper, who molded his own novelistic portrayal of family history through accounts such as The Pioneers (1823).
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In 1848 word started to spread like wildfire about Sutter’s mill and the very precious metal that was found nearby. In 1849 George, now in his early thirties, and fifteen other anxious miners packed up their things and made the long trek towards California via the California-Oregon trail. This trek was more than 2,000 miles and took them more than 6 months in a wagon train. George became very ill not long after departing Missouri with cholera. A lesser, undetermined man would have died. George was bound and determined to start his new life with a huge fortune. George was very unsuccessful for nine whole years until he joined some friends and they all went in on the Comstock Lode. This cost them 450 dollars between them and made all of them extremely wealthy. By now George was a seasoned miner and by “reputation had a uncanny sixth sense about mines—some miners and prospectors called him the best judge of a mine in the country(p.14 W.R.H). Everything was going so well for George until he heard his mother was ill and was needed back home. George headed back home to Missouri at the age of forty. While tending to his family he met a young woman named Phoebe Apperson. She was only eighteen years old. They married in 1862 just after the civil war broke out. George and Phoebe made their way back to California by way of boat through the Panama Canal and on April 29, 1863 they gave birth to William Randolph Hearst. Williams’s mother was very loving and attentive. She never left his side. George, willies father, was not. He was very preoccupied with his mining interest and his new business adventures. He owned property all over the western states and was a senator too. Meanwhile, when Williams mother wasn’t taking care of him at home in California, they were traveling the world. Phoebe loved to see Europe.
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With the mining came the railroads. In December of 1878 the first train came to New Mexico, the Atchison, Topeka, and S...
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