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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.

Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad

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Paperback / softback by Dick Kreck , David Fridtjof Halass

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Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought... Read more

    Publisher: Fulcrum Inc.,US
    Publication Date: 01/05/2013
    ISBN13: 9781555919481, 978-1555919481
    ISBN10: 1555919480

    Number of Pages: 280

    Non Fiction , Home & Garden

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    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.

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