John Martin Feeney

“ Against winter snows—their few belongings sold—Brandon and his boy are impelled westward by the strong urge of progress.
"Are you ever comin' back, Davy?"
"Poor dreamer——he's chasing a rainbow!"
"Yes Tom———and some day men like you will be laying rails along that rainbow."
He feels the momentum of a great nation pushing westward——he sees the inevitable. ”

“ President, don't you remember me—Miriam Marsh?"
"And where is little Davy, who went west with his daddy?
"Now, that was a boy well worth your waiting for."
"Mr. President, this is Mr. Jesson—my father's engineer—and my fiancé.
"Mr. President, the whole nation hopes you will sign that bill."
"I have decided."
ALincoln
The far-seeing wisdom of the great rail-splitter President is the beginning of the Empire of the West. ”

“ There is no white labor—it is necessary to bring in Chinese for the task.
Men and horses strain every nerve, hauling locomotives and supplies over the mountains—this making possible the construction of forty miles of track——while behind them tunnels are chiseled by hand.
From Omaha the following year come the Union Pacific crews—chiefly ex-soldiers of North and South, working peacefully side by side. They had laid the first rail three months after the assassination of President Lincoln. ”