Santa Fe: The railroad that built an empire /
James Marshall
- New York Random House, Inc. 1945
- 465 p. B&w photographs; maps; index; appendixes 1 - 9
In this thrilling account of American adventure and empire building, Cyrus K. Holliday builds a railroad that would take over all the traffic of the Santa Fe Trail, proceed to the Pacific Coast, help tap the mineral wealth of the Rockies, take the traffic from Mexico and provide shipping facilities for the cattle herds and agriculture. It includes adventures with Indians, buffalo herds, famous westerners, famous outlaws, and follows those who did it step by step.
Railroads - Transportation - History--Santa Fe Railroad - History--United States - Territorial expansion