Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

Genesis. First Principles -- Patriotism And Profit -- The Acts Of The Founders -- Building With Other People's Money -- Golden Spike -- A Railroad Life: H.k. Thomas -- Annus Horribilis: 1873. Springtime In Mexico -- Springtime In Canada -- The Indians' Perpetual Winter -- Political Storms Brewing -- Information And Trust -- The Long Winter -- Stories Of The Fall -- A Railroad Life: William Hyde -- Friends. The Lobby -- Antimonopoly And Party Politics -- The Southern Transcontinental -- Reform In The Gilded Age -- A Railroad Life: Elias C. Boudinot -- Spatial Politics. Absolute Space -- Relational Space -- The Things They Carried -- How Railroad Rates Construct Space -- The Rise Of The Octopus -- Regulating Space -- A Railroad Life: Alfred A. Cohen -- Kilkenny Cats. Creative Destruction -- The Colton Trial -- Territory -- Rationalizing Irrationality -- Superheroes Of Bad Management -- A System That Did Not Bury Its Dead -- Mise En Scène: Labor In Nature -- Men In Octopus Suits. The Visible Hand -- Men And Boys: Manhood And Management -- A Political Animal -- Going Off The Tracks -- A Railroad Life: William Mahl -- Workingmen. Control Of Work -- The Knights Of Labor -- Contract Labor And The Chinese -- Rock Springs -- Workers' Marginalism -- A Railroad Life: William Pinkerton -- Looking Backward. Benevolent Trusts -- Waiting For Natural Monopoly -- Labor's Defeat -- Bears -- The Interstate Commerce Commission -- The Interstate-commerce Railway Association -- Mise En Scène: The Death Of Johanna Grogan -- Collapse. An Alcoholics Anonymous For Railroads -- Bankers -- Villard And Adams -- The Second Fall Of Henry Villard -- The Panic Of 1893 -- The Struggles Of The Octopus -- Mise En Scène: Reading The Newspapers -- Strike. The Courts -- Union Pacific And Great Northern -- Pullman -- The Decline Of The Octopus -- Mise En Scène: Following The Detectives -- Creative Destruction. Dumb Growth -- Cattle -- The Diverging Dakotas -- Rain Follows The Plow -- Mise En Scène: Wovoka -- Appendix. Richard White. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.