A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . d was the only line west of theMississippi River and east of the SierraNevada range, in all of the. then farWest, except a short line from to Jefferson City, the capital ofMissouri. The western terminus ofthe Hannibal & St. Joseph road was at St. Josejjh, on the Missouri Riverand the starting point for the routewestward of a transcontinental rail-way seemed, naturally, to be fromSt. Joseph, not onh* because it wasthe terminus of the only road s
A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . d was the only line west of theMississippi River and east of the SierraNevada range, in all of the. then farWest, except a short line from to Jefferson City, the capital ofMissouri. The western terminus ofthe Hannibal & St. Joseph road was at St. Josejjh, on the Missouri Riverand the starting point for the routewestward of a transcontinental rail-way seemed, naturally, to be fromSt. Joseph, not onh* because it wasthe terminus of the only road so farwest, but for topographical reasons,involving grades and other desiderata. St. Joseph was at that time easilythe most important city on the Mis-souri River. Kansas City was littleknown other than as WestportLanding, a straggling village underthe bluffs, most important as thesteamboat landing for Westport, asmall town a few miles inland, inMissouri, the outfitting depot for muchoverland traffic. Now, however, Kan-sas City is, as is well known, a mightymetropolis for a vast tributary region. Omaha was then little more than a t *-. Gen. Granville M. Dodge Civil EnRineer who surveyed the line of the Union Pacific Vx 72 BLAZI\(j THE WESrWARL) WAY
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