Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad - Dick Kreck

Jue Sep 05, 2024 12:36 am

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.

Category:History, Biography, Social Sciences, United States History, Historical Biography, Regional Studies, Sociology, 19th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Historical Biography - United States, United States Studies, Urban Sociology, United States History - Western, Plains & Rocky Mountain Region, Frontier & Pioneer Life - Western United States, Historical Biography - United States - General & Miscellaneous, Regional Studies - Western U.S., Urban Sociology - United States, Western United States - History - General & Miscellaneous

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