With a firm supporting organization and a drive to complete the railroad to receive the promised land from the St, Mary’s Canal and Mineral Land company, bidding was started for construction of the ...

By the 1820s purchasing jobs sent him often to Europe, where in 1830 Whitney had the opportunity to ride an early British steam ... of Exchange In the Pacific Railroad, Whitney found his purpose.

Twain describes his 1861 journey by mule-drawn express mail coach, in the days before the railroad, and compares it to a newspaper article from the early 1870s reporting on the trip by rail.