Author : Dick Kreck
Release : 2016-03-23
Genre : Transportation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 529/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hell on Wheels by : Dick Kreck
Download or read book Hell on Wheels written by Dick Kreck. This book was released on 2016-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.