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On this episode of Our American Stories, Stephen Ambrose is here to tell us the story from his bestseller, Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad.
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Nothing like it in the world. The man who built the transcontinental rows maybe said I completed my last book you say you do the Pacific really know and I saw how subtle I do that these guys were robber barons.
They will install the country blind and use all their ill-gotten gains to get a grip on American politics, which they held onto until the first the populace and the progressive parties were formed and I don't want to deal with these robber barons and she said you do so you saw a I rent for six months and I learned that I've been badly wrong that far from being villains.
These guys are heroes… About the big form… I'm talking about all the others were at the top and all the men who built the truck so that was. This book opens with Abraham Lincoln and somebody asked me about that a couple days ago, possibly over the lighter, Trina open your story with Abraham Lincoln Lincoln was a railroad lawyer before he went in default full-time politics. He was involved in the biggest case law with the Rock Island when they built a bridge over the Mississippi River and the steamboat crash in one of the pilings and it burned up the steamboat company sued the railroad you can put those bridges over this river are stable to run into. Lincoln defended the Rock Island and what you was there was a pilot's fault crash into the potting vasectomies of the railroads have as much right to go East and West as your steamships have to go north and south that Prince was accepted by the Illinois Supreme Court and that's what made railroading in America. Lincoln guy got written in the 1860 Republican platform support for the building of the transcontinental rural and that was done he was the promoter of the 1862 bill and then he promoted the 1864 revision which gave you more subsidies to the railroad because he wanted to see that railroad building Lansing fast. Lincoln was in Council Bluffs I was 1859 and the man he was staying with his name is Piercy pointing to a man on down the way on the veranda of the hotel. They said that's Granville.she was 20 years old dog and Piercy set Lincoln he knows more about railroads than any two men in the country and that's let's go meet. He said those great big long legs as he began striding down, he stuck out that long arm and he said what's the best route for the Pacific Rim like that Dodson right here, Mr. Pres., straight out from Omaha line of the Platte River Valley why you think so Lincoln asking God told him what I thought so. And from that moment on Lincoln was fully committed to what became the first trans-, Herrero, next to winning the Civil War and abolishing slavery building the first transcontinental railroad from Omaha, Nebraska, Sacramento, California was the greatest achievement of the American people in the 19th century until the completion of the panel walking down the early 20th century was it right is an engineering feat. Herrero took brain muscle and sweat in quantities and scope never before. Put into a single project that could not have been done without a representative democratic political system without skill and ambitious engineers without bosses and foremen would learn how to organize and lead men in the civil without free labor without hard-working laborers would learn how to take orders in the war.
Without those who came over to America in the thousands from China seeking a fortune about laborers speaking many languages and coming to America from every inhabited continent without the trees and iron available in America without capitalist willing to take high-risk for great profit without men willing to challenge all every level in order to win all most of all, it could not of been done without teamwork.
United States was less than 100 years old when the Civil War was one slavery abolished in the first transcontinental railroad until nearly 20 years later the Canadian Pacific span the Dominion was 1/4 of a century after completion of the railroad wrote that the Russians got started in the trans-Siberian railway and the Russians use more than 200,000 Chinese to do is compare the American employment of 10,000 or so Chinese. In addition, the Russians had hundreds of thousands of convicts working on the line as slave laborers, even at that it was not until 32 years after the American achievement that the Russians finished and I did it as a government enterprise and a much higher cost with a road that was in every way inferior. The Americans dinner first and I didn't even though the United States was the youngest of countries and proclaimed its independence in 1776, one its independence in 1783. Bought the Louisiana purchase through which much of the Union Pacific ran in 1803 at a California, Nevada and Utah to the Union in 1848 through which the Central Pacific ran and completed the linking of the continent in 1869, thus ensuring empire of liberty running from C to shining sea, and more. Stephen Ambrose is remarkable storytelling on the building of the transcontinental railroad here on our American story books. If you love the stories we tell about this great country and especially the stories of America's rich past. Know that all of our stories about American history from war of innovation culture and faith are brought to us by the great folks place for students studying all the things that are beautiful in life and all the things that are good in life. If you can get the Hillsdale that will come to you with a free and terrific online courses go to Hillsdale.edu to learn more Tori ends anyway, she went OMG podcasts we have such a special epithet brought to you by near attack ODT we recorded at iHeartRadio type event windows hanging down near attack ODT were not to plant 75 mg can help migraine sufferers still such an exciting event windows hanging out I had when I took minor attack ODT. I was present amazing time.
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There are no trails, not even a goat path. The grade would not be bored through a tunnel, but rather built on the side of the mountain which required blasting in rock cuts on the sheer cliffs. The mountain needed to be sculpted because the railroad be curved around the mouth. The curves that hug the monolith upgrade or occasionally down and had to be lowered in the boatswain's chair from above to place the black powder first drill hole for them to place the black powder fix and light the fuses yelled a man above the hall. With regard to Cape Horn. No strings engineering magazine, the premier magazine for engineers of the day said in 1870. Good engineers consider this undertaking. Preposterous. One day in the summer of 1865 Chinese foreman went up to stroke to his foreman for the Central Pacific.
The Chinese nodded and then waited for permission to speak when it was granted. He said men are trying our skill work like this are ancestors build fortresses. Thanks to gorgeous when you permit Chinese crews to work on Cape Horn. If so, could reeds be set up in San Francisco so we can weave them into Basque Strawbridge would try anything. The reeds came on that night, the Chinese will basket similar to the ones their ancestors had used the baskets were around waist high for eyelets at the top, painted with symbols. Ropes ran from the islands to a central cable, the Chinese went to work. They needed little or no instruction in handling black powder which was a Chinese invention and they want to work with a hauling crew at the top hundreds of barrels of black powder were ignited daily to form a ledge on which a roadbed could be laid some of the men were lost in accidents. We don't know how many UCP didn't keep a record. The Chinese workingmen hanging in there baskets had to borrow the holes with their small handrails then tamp in the explosives set, light the fuse and how to be pulled out of the way they use a huge amount of power that was shipped to them from Sacramento. The Chinese made the roadbed and laid the tracker on Cape Horn.
Though this talk until the spring of 1866. A year.
It was not as time-consuming or difficult as as had been feared still remains one of the best known of all the labors on the Central Pacific mainly because unlike the work in the tunnel that makes for a spectacular direct as well as shut, hanging of nose baskets drilling holes in the cliff putting in the powder place in the fuse and getting hauled up was a spectacular piece of work. The white laborers couldn't do Chinese could not. As a matter of cars then quickly, then Lisa may look this way easily done Louis Clement of the surveying and then took charge of overseeing the railroad engineering and Cape Horn what Clement planned in the Chinese made became one of the grandest sites to be seen along the entire Central Pacific line trains will halt their Sauternes could get out from their cars to gasp and gave the guard at the grade in the fall of 1865 the CP went to work on its channels. You need to know that California has on its eastern side. The Sierra Nevada that is that it goes up very high and you get more snow on the Sierra Nevada you do anyplace else in the United States, save only Alaska in the tunnels had to be drilled through this grant and in the fall babies at five. The CP went to work on these tunnels. Six of the 13 I would have to blast out before getting the slope were clustered in a small stretch of 2 miles at the top of the long climb the biggest number six right at the summit within a few hundred feet in Donner Pass with Donner Lake right down below was 1659 feet long and as Mike is 124 feet beneath the surface of all the backbreaking labor that went into the building of the CP and the UPM all the dangers inherent in the work. This was the worst the drills lost their edges to the grant and had to be replaced frequently one Chinese worker will hold that drill. And then there were two men behind with sledgehammers.
The other guy all that went on for eight hours. There was room for only one gang at a time three men to again the drills lost their eggs to the granite and had to be replaced. Frequently the CP soon learned orders, drills, and 100 ton lots. The man holding the drill had to be stuck here, he would get hit by the sledgehammer. The man swinging a hammer head have muscles like steel. When all is the last big enough for the black powder to be packed and the crude fillet set a fuse yell as loud as they could while running out of the range of the blast. They would hope sometimes a fuse work. Sometimes it didn't live in the workers and put into much powder and most of it blue toward them harmlessly. As far as the grant was concerned, but a great danger to the Chinese claimant's assistant Henry Road explained that more powder was used by the rock form and then was economical for the simple reason that the workers were told the time, not money, was of the essence. At some time alone 300 kegs of blasting powder a day went up. That's more than what up in a day in the Civil War. Progress was incredibly slow with men working round-the-clock. This is 24 hours a day, eight hours eight hours and eight hours between six and 12 inches was a normal 24 hour day of how much they gained Johnny Crocker in charge gave orders to establish permanent work camps on each side of the summit to facilitate the round-the-clock drilling, lasting scraping, shoveling and hauling by the Chinese. Johnny figured there was no night or day within a tunnel. The men worked in groups of 20 or so because only a handful could work at any one time. They healthy, well cooked and tasty food. Unlike the white workers on the Union Pacific. The Central Pacific provided is that the Union Pacific the Americans with boiled beef and potatoes. That's all they want, and some salt.
The Chinese demand and got an astonishing variety, oysters, cuttlefish finfish Avalon meet oriental fruits and scores of vegetables including bamboo, sprouts, seaweed and mushroom.
Each of these foods came dried purchase from one of the Chinese merchants in San Francisco.
Further, the Chinese ate rice solid cabbage vermiculite bacon and sweet crackers.
Very occasionally, they had fresh meat pork being a prime favorite along with chicken that food help keep the Chinese healthy the water they drank was even more importantly, Americans drank from the streams and lakes and many of them got diarrhea, dysentery and other illnesses. Chinese drank only tepid water than boiled first and was brought to them by youngsters and carried two pails of the sturdy pole across her shoulders and they would dip and drink 13.
What remarkable storytelling painting word pictures like no one else can we come back more of this remarkable story. Stephen Ambrose nothing like it in the world. The men who built the transcontinental railroad.
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Hi, I'm Jonathan Strickland post of the restless ones join me as I sit down for an in-depth discussion of the leaders at the intersection of technology and business leaders like Elliott Katz and shy maximum cofounders offender modern technology decouples labor from location because with remotely operated forklifts you can have someone doing that exact same work in the exact same warehouse but be sitting thousands of miles away so our customers are using our remote operation platform to connect people all around the country who want need to work with the hundreds of thousands of essential job that must be filled to keep our supply chain intact. The restless ones is now available on iHeartRadio app wherever you listen to podcast presented by T-Mobile for business 5G that's ready right now it's dramas you may know me from the recap on LA TV abdominal podcast life as a gringo, to every Tuesday and Thursday will be talking real and unapologetic about all things light and culture and everything in between. From someone who's never quite been listen to life as a gringo on the iHeartRadio app or web you get podcasts brought to you by State Farm like a good neighbor, State Farm is there and we continue with our American stories and let's return to Stephen Ambrose telling the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad. According to contemporaries the white worker had a hydrophobia which induced him to avoid any contact with water. In contrast, the Chinese are accustomed to daily evolutions of their entire person.
The Chinese were ideal workers keep three dollars a day. They did as they were told made a quick study and after something was shown explained to them that it skillfully. Few if any strikes the same for complaints they did what no one else was willing or able to do when Johnny Crocker first proposed the strawberry.
Let's use Chinese because they were getting white workers who would sign up and then get a ride up to the top of the Sierra Nevada in the desert because it is what a free ride out of the gold the Chinese did do it that way, and progress in the stubbornness try Chinese to reset your crazy there only that I weigh hundred and 10 pounds. I can't possibly do this work, and Crocker said they built the Great Wall of China didn't play in strawberry soon became one of the great advocates now to the men who made the Union Pacific were primarily Irishmen. Although the myth as it was exclusively and I was there were German descendents, and there were Scandinavians and there were Italians and there were right in the sentence and the rug quite a lot 500 by my own count African-American.
Newly freed slaves.
The whole world worked on Union Pacific, but the Irishmen made up maybe 50%. Another factor here is, they were almost all of them veterans.
They were 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 years old.
They had been in the Civil War, whether in the Confederate Army of the Union army. You look at pictures of the very famous pictures and you're going to see a lot of greatcoat that a lot of blue coats and these were kids who the war was over and I'm going to go back to Indiana and plow back to Ohio and get behind a horse and hold that plow all day long falling behind.
I want some more exciting my life. I want something that is significant. I want to be a part of something big. In addition, then caught that most American of all diseases. The wanderlust they wanted to see new country and they signed on with the Union Pacific to go to work to build something that they knew and they did that could bring their grandchildren to.
I helped build in general Dodge, who wasn't generally more had been so our buddy was superintended and header construction and the chief engineer for the Union Pacific. He said it was a best organize best equipped, and best disciplined workforce I have ever seen.the lottery and they were being attacked by ended much constantly whenever in Nebraska and more occasionally was still fairly often when they're in Wyoming and Indians had a number of objections to the building.
This role for us all go through their land.
No way to ask them nobody ever paid them and the second they knew it was bringing civilization that meant for a small army post and that meant that they could no longer outrun the Army that a regimen could get on a train and go all the way out to Cheyenne or go on to Rollins or wherever in Wyoming in disembarking the training they could hit the dislike that Indians were aware that they are also aware that these settlements were going to come and then spell the doom for the end and way of life and most of all, the Indians were aware Buffalo would not cross the track so the laying of the track across the Great Plains meant you're splitting the buffalo herd in half so they attacked off, and sometimes with some effect. Sometimes a great effect because they would pry up the track in the middle of the night and the locomotive would come through and the engineer wouldn't see this in the dark and will overlap in the Indians would attack and they would take everything and cut out of the cars, and especially if they could find some whiskey that became very notorious at Jules Berg in Colorado that one of the ways that the railroad got controller that was they learn the hanging lanterns on the front of the locomotive and that provided a spotlight seated Alecia ahead and see if the track been torn up or not but Dodge had all of these young men 10,000 that were working for the Union Pacific.
They were all armed and their foreman had all been officers of the Civil War and they would see hostile Indians horse up on the ridge, get ready to come down like that. Those guys would switch from being railway workers to being soldiers and they would grab their rifles and they would line up and they would repel these Indian attacks how hard they worked as an astonishment to us at the beginning of the 21st century except for some of the cooks and bakers. There was not a fat man among them. Their hands were tough enough for any job one never sees gloves in the photographs. The jobs included pickax handling shoveling wielding sledgehammers picking up iron rails and using other equipment. The required hands like iron their waist were generally thin shoulders.
Those arms, those legs Nebraska can be hotter than hell colder than the South Pole. They kept on working and wine and complain they didn't quit just Work they'd taken on a job that is accurately described as backbreaking and was in addition, a job that experts said could not be done in the 10 years it's been a lot.
If ever the day's routine was something like this in the morning. The men were up at first light after their toilet and washing their face and hands and 10 base.
They had a hearty breakfast and then went to work at noon time was called and they had an hour for every dinner that included pictures of steaming coffee cans of beef soup platters heat with boiled beef, potatoes, sometimes condensed milk diluted with water.
Men were there to eat. There was little conversation.
They made a business of it.
Afterward, they sat around their bunks smoking sewing on buttons are taking a little nap, then back to work with the bosses cursing and exhorting them to overcome their noontime lassitude time was called again, an hour before dark to allow some rest evening meal was more luxury then to the bunk houses for card game smoke lots of talk railroad talk was said to consist entirely of whiskey women, higher wages and shorter hours. Sometimes the men protested about being treated when they did, they were shot one a day or more. There was no law, and then a song, such as for Patty he works in the railroad are the great Pacific Railway for California hail then to bed hold be repeated the next day the next and the next and what storytelling by the great Stephen Ambrose and we think is a state allowing us to use his voice and to keep his work alive.
The time when you were in fewer people know the story of this great country.
Stephen Ambrose tell me stories. Well, it's more than a breath of fresh air its life itself and substance, and by the way, this story of the Union Pacific of the Irish 50% of the Irish dominated this and these crews almost all vets as he pointed out they didn't want to go back to the farm, Ambrose pointed out after the war. In some far from the north and some fought for the South. They wanted to be a part of something. They wanted to see a new country built, and they also want to be able to bring their grandchildren to the finished product and say I helped build when we come back for more of this remarkable story building of the transcontinental railroad Stephen Ambrose dear on our American stores. Tory and Sammy with 90210 MG podcasts we have such a special episode brought to you by near attack ODT we recorded at at iHeartRadio type event windows hanging down near attack ODT romantic pants 75 mg can help migraine sufferers still set an exciting event windows hanging out. I had one night I took minor attack ODT and I was present and had an amazing time.
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He also offered wages for any form.
I worked Henry Morton Stanley, who was one of the many reporters who was out there covering this and Henry Morton Stanley is reporter who found Dr. Dr. Livingston, I presume that he was reporting to American papers. He was impressed by the results. The workers he said display in this damaging amount of enthusiasm for their jobs. Workers on the CP from the bosses down believe there was more rain and snow in the winter of 1865, 66, and had ever before been seen in California winter of 1866, 67, was much worse. The snow came early and stayed late there were 44 separate storms. Some of them deposited 10 feet of snow. Some deposited more at the summit. The pack averaged 18 feet on the level more fault, more snowfalls on the Sierra Nevada than anyplace else in the 48 states only Alaska gets more so than the Sierra Nevada. Strawbridge put hundreds of the Chinese to work doing nothing but shoveling the snow away to keep up in a card trail to the tunnel opening not been for the race with the UPA UCP will close on that winter, but the fear of losing all the Utah Nevada rival drove them on the Chinese laborers dug snow tunnels from 50 to 500 feet long to get to the granite tunnels.
They lived in these big loses what they were in these Chinese were sometimes lost six months. Everyone saw the sky it is.
Some of these tunnels were large enough for a team of horses to walk through windows were dark out of the snow walls to dump, refuse and let a little bit of life also chimneys in their shafts. For the most part, the Chinese worked eight Dragon 13 gambles smoked opium, which they did on Sundays. I got Sundays off and they smoked opium didn't get themselves intoxicated with that are accelerating like that. They just want to relax on a day off so they smoked their opium and slept in the remarkable labyrinth that they were building on the snow. This was cruel work dangerous and claustrophobic. Still, they pressed on drilling the holes in the granite placing the black powder and then the fuse lighting the fuse getting out of the way than going back in the clear out the broken grant of all the things done by the first transcontinental railroad. Nothing exceeded the cuts in time and cost. It made for people traveling across the continent before the Mexican war during the gold rush that started in 1848 through the 1850s and until after the Civil War ended in 1865.
It took a person half a year and might cost well over $1000 to go to New York to seven Cisco later went overland in the covered wagons with the oxen drawing or they sail down to Panama. I got across Panama are very great peril. The fear of getting tropical diseases and then hope to hell they could find a steamer going north to come up to California or they went all the way around South America came back up again and then there is months and big money but less than a week after the pounding of the golden spike, a man or woman could go from New York to San Francisco in seven days that include stops so fast.
I used to say you don't even have time to take a bath and the cost to go from New York to San Francisco is listed in the summer of 1869 was $150 for first class, $70 for emigrant by June 1870 that was done $100 for first class LXV for emigrant class.
This is a time when our common laborer was making about $100 a month and first-class man upon the sleeping car immigrants sat on the bench freight rates by train were incredibly less, than for ox or horse-drawn wagons offer sailboats or steam mail that once caused dollars per ounce and took forever now cost pennies and got from Chicago to California in a few days. The telegraph meanwhile is built beside the track is was stipulated in the 1862 Pacific Railway and would just pause for a minute and talk about the telegraph.
We like to think we live in the age of the greatest change.
My parents will live through the biggest change we lived through the depression and we went through the second world war we defeated him really defeated Tokyo over there on the atomic bomb can about it. We went to my grandparents. I felt weaving through the biggest change we were there when Henry Ford brought out the automobile. We were there when the Wright brothers flew for the first time. Obviously our generation went to the biggest change. The generation that lived between 1850 and 1871 the Civil War they abolish slavery and they built the transcontinental railroad and the billing that railroad they brought in the telegraph. We think we are in instant communication today. The telegraph puts you in instant communication, you could get a message from Chicago to San Francisco or from Los Angeles to New York or wherever, like that that's what made the national stock exchange possible and so much else in American business came about because of that telegraph. So the telegraph meanwhile could move ideas thought statistic any words or numbers to be put on paper from one place to another, from Europe or England or New York to San Francisco or anywhere else and had a telegraph station instantly. The Pullman company publish a weekly newspaper called the transcontinental for its passengers on May 30, 1870 almost exactly one year after the golden spike. The paper had decided it was a caring incident in our smoking car last evening. One of our party who telegraphed the Boston to learn of his wife was well received. After we had run 47 miles further west.
This answer all well at home with fact was announced in loud applause followed from all in the car. Just imagine it's almost like a telephone but nobody ever did for now, you could find out how your wife was when your where the hell out past Salt Lake together the transcontinental railroad and the telegraph made modern America possible things.
It could not be imagined before the Civil War now became common nationwide stock market continent wide economy in which people agricultural products: minerals move wherever someone wanted to send them and did so cheaply and quickly a continent wide culture in which male in popular magazines and books used to cost dollars per ounce and it taken seemingly forever to get from the East to the West Coast now cost pennies and got there in a few days is another factor here that I should've that I should mention that time that the railroads change so much in one of the things they gained was time before the railroads.
Nobody carried a watch around nobody care what time it was that he wanted known as high noon. You look up at the sky and when the sun is straight overhead. It's high noon and that's going to be different in Chicago than it is going to come later when you get out to do mine and mine is going to come earlier than it's going to come in Omaha and so on. But if you're going to have to it's only one track late if you're going to have trains going in both directions and you don't have the same time in Cheyenne as you do in Omaha going to cry and so that's where standard Time came from the railroads demanded standard Time in the Congress put in a standard Time in 1879 and then we also they became obsessed with time as we still are, times up times wasting the train is leaving the station and saw none of this might've happened. Different choices have been made by any of the foregoing groups and individuals, but the choice made is made, it cannot be changed. Things happen as they happen.
It's possible to imagine all kinds of different routes across the continent or a better way for the government to help private industry or maybe to have the government building on those things didn't happen and what did take place as grand so we admire those who didn't what they were and what they accomplished and how much each of us and what storytelling and thanks again Stephen Ambrose allowing us to use his voice were deeply appreciative, as I'm sure you are the listening audience and by the way, nothing like it in the world. The men who built the transcontinental railroad is a terrific read here on our American stores its dramas may know me from the recap on LA TV now got my own podcast life as a going to come at you every Tuesday and Thursday will be talking real and unapologetic about all things light and culture and everything in between. From someone who's never quite been listens to life as a gringo on the iHeartRadio app or web you get a podcast brought to you by State Farm like a good neighbor, State Farm is there a new season comes new savings this out of one of Casper's award-winning mattresses to help you catch your best being unprecedented times call for an unprecedented price. So we've upgraded our popular element mattress, with its air state. Breathable found responsive comfort and long-lasting support for just 995 for a queen Casper difference now@casper.com and use promo code 100 for $100 off select mattresses exclusive come from what he tells T-Mobile for business knows companies want more than a one-size-fits-all approach.
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