[American release] 1 Accurate and faithful in every particular of fact and atmosphere is this pictorial history of the building of the first transcontinental railroad. 2 DEDICATION To the ever-living memory of Abraham Lincoln, the Builder ---- and of those dauntless engineers and toilers who fulfilled his dream of a greater Nation. 3 FOREWORD During the Civil War the United States was divided not only into North and South -- but also into East and West, by a seemingly impassable barrier of prairie, desert and mountain. 4 More than to any other man, the Nation owes gratitude to Abraham Lincoln, whose vision and resolution held the North and the South while moulding with blood and with iron the East and the West. 5 Springfield, Illinois, in the days when a transcontinental railroad was but a dream. 6 One of the dreamers -- Brandon, a surveyor -- 7 -- and one of the skeptics -- Thomas Marsh, a small contractor. 8 "Having another of your day-dreams of rails across the continent, Brandon?" 9 "Yes, Tom -- dreaming of rails that'll reclaim that wilderness out there clean to California - 10 "-- And with the help of God, I'll lend a hand to blaze the trail." 11 "We was just surveyin' through to the pond." 12 "Just heard down to the store that you'd made up your mind to trail west." 13 "I'm going to start in a couple of weeks, Abe." 14 Against winter snows -- their few belongings sold -- Brandon and his boy are impelled westward by the strong urge of progress. 15 "Are you ever comin' back, Davy?" 16 "Poor dreamer -- he's chasing a rainbow!" 17 "Yes, Tom ---- and some day men like you will be laying rails along that rainbow." 18 He feels the momentum of a great nation pushing westward -- he sees the inevitable. 19 And others see -- but face it in defiance. 20 Three months later - springtime in the Cheyenne Hills. 21 "Look, lad! Some day there'll be a railroad through that pass ---- it's two hundred miles shorter than the Indian trail." 22 "But you're a white man!" 23 "You'll never tell that to anybody else!" 24 "Daddy ---- daddy was killed ---- a two-fingered Indian killed him." 25 Years pass -- and dreams of a transcontinental railroad shape into reality. 26 It is June, 1862 -- and Congress has authorized the simultaneous building of two railroads. The Union Pacific is to go west from Omaha, Nebraska. The Central Pacific (first unit of the Southern Pacific) is to go east from Sacramento, California. 27 "Surely, Mr. President, you will not sign the bill for this engineering folly, now that every cent is needed to carry on the war?" 28 "We must not let problems of war blind us to greater problems of the peace to come -- 29 "Or we will have fought in vain." 30 "Mr. President, don't you remember me -- Miriam Marsh?" 31 "And where is little Davy, who went west with his daddy? 32 "Now, that was a boy well worth your waiting for." 33 "Mr. President, this is Mr. Jesson -- my father's engineer -- and my fianc�. 34 "Mr. President, the whole nation hopes you will sign that bill." 35 "I have decided." 36 The far-seeing wisdom of the great rail-splitter President is the beginning of the Empire of the West. 37 From Sacramento, in 1863, the Central Pacific has started with a rush -- and after fourteen months scorn turns to wonder. 38 There is no white labor - it is necessary to bring in Chinese for the task. 39 Men and horses strain every nerve, hauling locomotives and supplies over the mountains - thus making possible the construction of forty miles of track -- while behind them tunnels are chiseled by hand. 40 From Omaha the following year come the Union Pacific crews -- chiefly ex-soldiers of North and South working peacefully side by side. They had laid the first rail three months after the assassination of President Lincoln. 41 "Drill, ye terriers, drill -- Drill, ye terriers, drill -- 42 "Sure, it's work all day, Without sugar in yer tay - When ye work for the U.P. Ra-a-ail-way --- 43 "Drill, ye terriers, drill -- 44 "Drill, ye terriers, drill, An' work and shw-e-a-t -" 45 In dead of winter, close behind the advancing rails, headquarters has jumped to North Platte. 46 "Mornin', Serg'nt Slattery." 47 "Likewise, Corp'ral Casey." 48 "Hurry up with yer crawlin' shovelers -- me min are stumblin' over thim." 49 "Is that so! Listen -- I slowed thim up a-purpose, so's we wouldn't be leavin' ye behind." 50 For their main food supply, the men depend on buffalo meat. 51 A young man named Cody, a crack shot, who supplies buffalo meat to the workers, is nicknamed "Buffalo Bill." 52 To the hardship of toil are added the rigors of winter. 53 The long overdue supply and pay train is eagerly awaited. 54 "Ain't it a shame -- thim fool Indians tryin' to rope our poor, weak little injine." 55 His brother. 56 "The two months' payroll is on that train -- if it's lost, it means trouble with the men." 57 Beyond the aid of the rescue train. 58 Thomas Marsh, in charge of this division, faces the most vital single problem in Union Pacific construction ---- a short cut through the hills must be found. 59 "Jesson, it will be financially impossible to keep on unless we find a short cut to save the two hundred miles ahead of us around the Black Hills." 60 Deroux -- the richest landowner in the Cheyenne country. 61 "Marsh is in there now, demanding a shorter pass than Smoky River." 62 "Does he know I own that whole Smoky River section?" 63 "Hear you're hunting for a short cut through the hills." 64 "Yes, I am sending Mr. Jesson out in a few days." 65 "All work -- no pay - snow an' chilblains -- buffalo meat mak' us seek ---- Indians shoot like hell ---- everything no good ---- we quit!" 66 "Say, boss, there's no gettin' on with these furriners -- I knocked five of thim down ---- an' even then they wouldn't work." 67 Her heart in the road, Miriam stands with her father. 68 "Men, this great work depends on you -- for the sake of your country, I ask you to finish it -- make the whole Nation proud of you!" 69 "They don't understand ye, miss! Ye got to swear at 'em!" 70 "Tony -- please -- you'll go back for another week --- won't you?" 71 "Anything to oblige a lady!" 72 "For the beautiful signorina, Tony he build the beeg ra'lroad heemself -- alone!" 73 "'Twas me iligant Irish iloquence that did it -- was it not?" 74 "Yes, it was ---- 75 "-- not!" 76 In its steady pursuit of the Union Pacific, Judge Haller's combined court and saloon has earned the name of "Hell on Wheels". 77 Ruby, the bright -- but not too particular -- star of the "Arabian Nights" dance tent. 78 "This bar of likker is now a bar of justice ---- sit down!" 79 "They've got Ruby up before the judge again for shooting!" 80 "Y'ain't a Chinaman, be yuh?" 81 "Your Honor, Deroux requests my presence at the hotel ---- so ta-ta." 82 "The fair defendant is excused pro tem -- the trial kin go right on without her." 83 "The charge is attempted murder -- 84 "--- but the gent threw whiskey in the face of a lady what's known to tote a gun -- 85 "--- which ain't attempted murder at all, but deliberate suicide ---- case dismissed." 86 "Do you know Jesson -- Marsh's engineer?" 87 "Now you play up to him -- give him anything he wants not to find a pass through the hills." 88 "You're a smart girl, Ruby ---- and this will mean your fare to see your folks back East in Kansas City." 89 That night Jesson works late on his maps -- next day he is to leave for the Cheyenne Hills. 90 "I'm afraid I've sprained my ankle --- please let me lean on you till I get to my house. 91 "My friends will make you very rich if you fail to find a shorter pass than Smoky River." 92 Next day ---- as Marsh is making a tour of inspection - 93 "That's a pony express rider!" 94 "Jump off yer hoss and run!" 95 "Saints alive -- he did jump!" 96 "Have you asked our young friend to ride with us in the car to the end of the track, Miriam?" 97 "Miriam! Not Miriam Marsh? 98 "Don't you remember me -- Davy Brandon -- of Springfield?" 99 "And where is your father, Davy?" 100 "Dad was killed on the trail out here." 101 "This is Mr. Jesson -- we're engaged to be married." 102 "You're from the same part of the country -- I thought you might have met before." 103 Nearing the end of track. 104 "Davy, our money is running low -- unless we can find a shorter cut than Smoky River, we're beaten!" 105 "-- some day there'll be a railroad through that pass --" 106 "Yes -- dad showed me exactly what you're looking for -- one night just before -- 107 "-- he was murdered by a two-fingered renegade, who headed a band of Cheyennes." 108 "I know that section -- there's no such pass." 109 "Will you go with Jesson to look for this pass?" 110 The end of track. 111 "Why don't you Eyetalians quit loafin' an' lay some track?" 112 "You sittin' in that cab! If we was movin' a pianner, you're the kind of a feller that would grab the stool." 113 Davy starts with Jesson on his quest. 114 "It would be best if he never came back." 115 "It's a lucky thing, me boy, that ye jumped when I told ye!" 116 "That's another life I've saved!" 117 While a great herd of cattle starts from Texas on an 800-mile trail to feed the railroad workmen. 118 The straggling town of Cheyenne ---- soon to become another Union Pacific metropolis. 119 "Boys, headquarters gets here in a few days!" 120 MOVING DAY IN NORTH PLATTE Its reign as capital of the Union Pacific is over -- another night and it will be deserted -- with its inhabitants building a new city in distant Cheyenne. 121 Hell on Wheels. 122 "Boys, this bar of justice and likker will still function when we get to Cheyenne - let 'er go!" 123 Friendly Pawnees, enlisted by the Government, guard the workers. 124 Everything but the old houses moves on wheels. 125 The price of the town's last night of orgy. 126 "C'mon ---- the old soak's deep enough!" 127 "I hereby pro-nounce you man and wife --- by jiminy!" 128 And not even a dog remains. 129 In the Black Hills -- Davy and Jesson have come to Brandon's pass. 130 "It's perfectly safe for you to go down." 131 "Not for me -- thanks!" 132 A new and greater Cheyenne springs into life. 133 "I calc'late to keep law an' order in this here town, Wild Bill Hickok, if I have to shoot the hull population." 134 "I want a divorce!" 135 "Deevorce! Look here, didn't I marry you in North Platte not more'n ten hours ago? 136 "Now separate!" 137 The three musketeers -- Sergeant Slattery, Corporal Casey, Private Schultz. 138 "Go on -- be a man and a soldier!" 139 "I -- think -- I'd -- rather -- be -- shaved --" 140 "Shure I niver dreamed the roots could go that deep." 141 "Welcome back, Jesson! General Dodge, our engineer-in-chief, is eager for your report." 142 "Sorry, sir -- but there's no pass other than Smoky River." 143 "But young Brandon was so positive -- where is he?" 144 "I deeply regret to say he fell into a ravine and was killed." 145 "Too bad about young Brandon. You must be glad, though, that it happened to him instead of to me, aren't you?" 146 While the great cattle herds rumble along the trail from Kansas. 147 The road of his father's dreams -- his road -- for he, too, is helping to build it. 148 But the rails curve southward toward Smoky River -- has Jesson failed to report the discovery of the shorter pass? 149 "Casey, why are they laying track toward Smoky River?" 150 "There's gonna be a foight!" 151 "They're laying track south -- why?" 152 "Mr. Jesson reported that no other pass was practical." 153 "If you made such a report, you deliberately lied." 154 "You've made a sweet mess of it. After Marsh hears what you've done, this place'll be too hot for you -- 155 "So you'd better finish young Brandon the next chance you get ---- or he'll finish you." 156 "Mr. Marsh, my field notes will show you there is a shorter pass ---- and it's practical." 157 "By George! My old orderly, Sergeant Slattery!" 158 "Gin'ral, don't you remimber Corp'ral Casey ---- who stole that chicken fer yer dinner?" 159 Like a flash of gunpowder, rumors of a battle between Davy and Jesson spread through the town. 160 "Deroux's roundin' up his gang here -- looks like they don't mean to give that game lad a chance for his life." 161 "I sent for you, Davy, because I heard there was to be a fight -- promise me you won't have any trouble with Mr. Jesson." 162 "He has a right to his chance." 163 "But what about me?" 164 "I'm sorry, Miriam -- I forgot you are engaged to Jesson." 165 "Can't you understand? It's not Jesson I love!" 166 "All right, dear -- I promise -- I give you my word I won't fight Jesson." 167 "Damn your cowardly soul -- blaze away at him!" 168 "Mr. Jesson, I'm sorry I lost my temper today -- 169 "We're both working for the success of the road ---- so let's forget everything else -- 170 "-- and shake hands." 171 "This here's a law an' order town -- an' this fight's goin' to be conducted legal!" 172 "What is it ---- a fight?" 173 "Quick -- quick -- Brandon's killing Jesson -- you're the only one who can stop him!" 174 "I couldn't help it, Miriam -- I'm sorry --" 175 "David -- you promised!" 176 "You promised me - and you've broken -- your -- word." 177 Personal bitterness is put aside. Davy is made gang boss ---- and the road advances along the shorter route. 178 "Drill, ye terriers, drill - Drill, ye terriers, drill - 179 "Sure, it's work all day, Without sugar in yer tay - When ye work for the U.P. Ra-a-ail-way. 180 "Drill, ye paddies, drill, An' work an' shw-e-at -" 181 "With those foreign laborers making trouble, we Americans must stick together." 182 A spectre from the past visits the great Cheyenne chief. 183 "Does my red brother remember me?" 184 Deroux tries desperately to halt work through the new pass by inciting the hostile Cheyennes to war. 185 "My brother, before many suns we shall stop the iron horse forever ----" 186 Meanwhile the cattle herd nears the end of its long journey -- with Cheyenne only a few miles away. 187 "My God, Pat! They've got Schultz!" 188 "Pat, can you fire an engine?" 189 "I kin do anything!" 190 "Telegraph Major North to rush his Pawnee scouts to the end o' track!" 191 "Indians at the end o' track!" 192 "Come on, boys - save your fellow-workmen ---- there's a gun here for every one of you!" 193 "Let 'em send soldiers!" 194 "You promise us the beef ---- we no get." 195 "Yer Saint Columbus found this country ---- but it's our Saint Patrick who has to make it go!" 196 "Here they come!" 197 "Here they are, boss ---- ten thousand head of 'em." 198 "Enough good beef to feed you all for a year!" 199 "If the damned shirkers won't get aboard, we'll stampede the herd ---- and drive 'em on the train!" 200 "You wanted beef, did ye? Well, now, ye'll get hell!" 201 "That's a sharpshooter close in!" 202 "Deroux!" 203 Like a sweeping wind, the Pawnee scouts rush to the rescue. 204 "TWO-FINGERS!" 205 "Don't be grievin' so, me lad ---- the young lady will be forgivin' ye one of these days." 206 "Pat, I'm going away ---- the Central Pacific needs men, and I think I'll trail west." 207 "Shure an' ye'll have to take me along ---- ye'll be worth nawthing without me." 208 And the next day the stage for California is ready to start. 209 "Me an' Davy are leavin' for California to take charge of the C.P." 210 "Was Dave Brandon on that coach?" 211 In distant California the Central Pacific track-layers make the mountains resound with their song: "Drill, ye Chinymen, drill, Drill, ye haythens, drill -" 212 "Shure it's work all day, Without sugar in yer tay, When ye work for the Cay Pay Ra-a-ail-way. 213 "Drill, ye haythens, drill, An' work an' shw-e-at." 214 After another year -- over conquered prairie and through riven mountain -- the great roads draw together. 215 THE TRACK-LAYING RACE! The U.P. leads off by building four miles in one day. The C.P. comes back with six. Then the U.P. does eight. 216 At Promontory Point -- the final hour when, in seven years less time than Congress allowed, the rails are to meet - 1086 miles west of Omaha, 690 miles east of Sacramento. 217 A WORLD'S RECORD. The Central Pacific finishes the race by laying ten miles between daylight and dark. 218 In the heart of one man there is no rivalry. 219 - to him the tracks will meet and the roads will be one - the transcontinental railroad. 220 "Davy!" 221 "Dinny!" 222 "Wurra, what a happy man Serg'nt Slattery would be to see this great day!" 223 "Me, I Irish now, too -- I marry Nora Hogan!" 224 He stands alone that night and sees the consummation of his father's dream. 225 With his own hands he has driven the last spike -- the buckle in the girdle of America. 226 The wedding of the rails -- celebrated with joyous exultation in the uniting of East and West. The afternoon of May 10, 1869. Note: The locomotives shown in the scene are the original Jupiter and #119. 227 Leland Stanford, President of the Central Pacific, greets Thomas C. Durant, Vice-President of the Union Pacific. 228 "You belong on this side, Davy." 229 "When they drive the golden spike we'll belong to both sides -- and each other." 230 California sends a golden spike to President Stanford. 231 As hammer falls on golden spike, the wire carries the sound to every telegraph office in the United States ---- 232 -- and at Washington, President U.S. Grant receives the telegraphic message: -- D -- O -- N -- E -- 233 "His Truth is marching on." The End ______________________________________HomeThe Iron Horse
[International release] 1 DEDICATION To the honour and memory of GEIRGE STEPHENSON, the Scottish engineer, and to the men of every nationality who have followed in his footsteps since England led the way by opening the first railway in 1825. 2 Accurate and faithful in every particular of fact and atmosphere is this pictorial history of the building of the first American transcontinental railroad. 3 Springfield, Illinois, in the days when a transcontinental railroad was but a dream. 4 One of the dreamers -- Brandon, a surveyor -- 5 -- and one of the skeptics -- Thomas Marsh, a small contractor. 6 "Having another of your day-dreams of rails across the continent, Brandon?" 7 "Yes, Tom -- dreaming of rails that'll reclaim that wilderness out there clean to California - 8 "-- And with the help of God, I'll lend a hand to blaze the trail." 9 "We was just surveyin' through to the pond." 10 "Just heard down to the store that you'd made up your mind to trail west." 11 "I'm going to start in a couple of weeks, Abe." 12 Against winter snows -- their few belongings sold -- Brandon and his boy are impelled westward by the strong urge of progress. 13 "Are you ever comin' back, Davy?" 14 "Poor dreamer -- he's chasing a rainbow!" 15 "Yes, Tom ---- and some day men like you will be laying rails along that rainbow." 16 He feels the momentum of a great nation pushing westward -- he sees the inevitable. 17 And others see -- but face it in defiance. 18 Three months later - springtime in the Cheyenne Hills. 19 "Look, lad! Some day there'll be a railroad through that pass ---- it's two hundred miles shorter than the Indian trail." 20 "But you're a white man!" 21 "You'll never tell that to anybody else!" 22 "Daddy ---- daddy was killed ---- a two-fingered Indian killed him." 23 Years pass -- and dreams of a transcontinental railroad shape into reality. 24 --------- For in 1862 Congress authorises the simultaneous building of two railways. The Union Pacific to go West and the Central Pacific to go East, thus linking the American Continent from sea to sea. 25 "Surely, Mr. President, you will not sign the bill for this engineering folly, now that every cent is needed to carry on the war?" 26 "We must not let problems of war blind us to greater problems of the peace to come -- 27 "Or we will have fought in vain." 28 "Mr. President, don't you remember me -- Miriam Marsh?" 29 "And where is little Davy, who went west with his daddy? 30 "Now, that was a boy well worth your waiting for." 31 "Mr. President, this is Mr. Jesson -- my father's engineer -- and my fianc�. 32 "Mr. President, the whole nation hopes you will sign that bill." 33 "I have decided." 34 Men and horses strain every nerve, hauling locomotives and supplies over the mountains - thus making possible the construction of forty miles of track -- while behind them tunnels are chiseled by hand. 35 There is no white labor. It is necessary to bring in Chinese for the task. 36 In 1865 Lincoln was assassinated, but his work went on. Later in the year come the Union Pacific crews -- chiefly ex-soldiers of the North and South working peacefully side by side. 37 "Drill, ye terriers, drill -- Drill, ye terriers, drill -- 38 "Sure, it's work all day, Without sugar in yer tay - When ye work for the U.P. Ra-a-ail-way --- 39 "Drill, ye terriers, drill -- 40 "Drill, ye terriers, drill, An' work and shw-e-a-t -" 41 In dead of winter, close behind the advancing rails, headquarters has jumped to North Platte. 42 "Mornin', Serg'nt Slattery." 43 "Likewise, Corp'ral Casey." 44 "Hurry up with yer crawlin' shovelers -- me min are stumblin' over thim." 45 "Is that so! Listen -- I slowed thim up a-purpose, so's we wouldn't be leavin' ye behind." 46 For their main food supply the men depend on buffalo meat. 47 A young man named Cody, a crack shot, who supplies buffalo meat to the workers, is nicknamed "Buffalo Bill." 48 To the hardships of toil are added the rigours of winter. 49 The long overdue supply and pay train is eagerly awaited. 50 "Ain't it a shame -- thim fool Indians tryin' to rope our poor, weak little injine." 51 His brother. 52 "The two months' wages are on that train -- if it's lost, it means trouble with the men." 53 Beyond the aid of the rescue train. 54 Thomas Marsh, in charge of this division, faces the most vital single problem in Union Pacific construction ---- a short cut through the hills must be found. 55 "Jesson, it will be financially impossible to keep on unless we find a short cut to save the two hundred miles ahead of us around the Black Hills." 56 Bauman -- the richest landowner in the Cheyenne country. 57 "Marsh is in there now, saying he must have a shorter pass than Smoky River." 58 "Does he know I own that whole Smoky River section?" 59 "Hear you're hunting for a short cut through the hills." 60 "Yes, I am sending Mr. Jesson out in a few days." 61 "All work -- no pay - snow an' chilblains -- buffalo meat mak' us seek ---- Indians shoot like hell ---- everything no good ---- we quit!" 62 "Say, boss, there's no gettin' on with these furriners -- I knocked five of thim down ---- an' even then they wouldn't work." 63 Her heart in the project, Miriam stands with her father. 64 "Men, this great work depends on you ---- for the sake of your country, I ask you to finish it -- " 65 "They don't understand ye, miss! Ye got to swear at 'em!" 66 "Tony -- please -- you'll go back for another week --- won't you?" 67 "Anything to oblige a lady!" 68 "For the beautiful signorina, Tony he build the beeg ra'lroad heemself -- alone!" 69 "'Twas me iligant Irish iloquence that did it -- was it not?" 70 "Yes, it was ---- 71 "-- not!" 72 In its steady pursuit of the Union Pacific, Judge Haller's combined court and saloon has earned the name of "Hell on Wheels". 73 Ruby, the bright -- but not too particular -- star of the "Arabian Nights" dance tent. 74 "This bar of likker is now a bar of justice ---- sit down!" 75 "They've got Ruby up before the judge again for shooting!" 76 "Y'ain't a Chinaman, be yuh?" 77 "Your Honour, Bauman requests my presence at the hotel ---- so ta-ta." 78 "The fair defendant is excused pro tem -- the trial kin go right on without her." 79 "The charge is attempted murder -- 80 "--- but the gent threw whiskey in the face of a lady what's known to carry a gun -- 81 "--- which ain't attempted murder at all, but deliberate suicide ---- case dismissed." 82 "Do you know Jesson -- Marsh's engineer?" 83 "Now you lead him on -- give him anything he wants not to find a pass through the hills." 84 "You're a smart girl, Ruby ---- and this will mean your fare home to see your folks." 85 That night Jesson works late on his maps -- next day he is to leave for the Cheyenne Hills. 86 "I'm afraid I've sprained my ankle --- please let me lean on you till I get to my house. 87 "My friends will make you very rich if you fail to find a shorter pass than Smoky River." 88 Next day ---- as Marsh is making a tour of inspection - 89 "That's a pony express rider!" 90 "Jump off yer hoss and run!" 91 "Saints alive -- he did jump!" 92 "Have you asked our young friend to ride with us in the car to the end of the track, Miriam?" 93 "Miriam! Not Miriam Marsh? 94 "Don't you remember me -- Davy Brandon -- of Springfield?" 95 "And where is your father, Davy?" 96 "Dad was killed on the trail out here." 97 "This is Mr. Jesson -- we're engaged to be married." 98 "You're from the same part of the country -- I thought you might have met before." 99 Nearing the end of track. 100 "Davy, our money is running low -- unless we can find a shorter cut than Smoky River, we're beaten!" 101 "-- some day there'll be a railroad through that pass --" 102 "-- dad showed me exactly what you're looking for -- one night just before -- 103 "-- he was murdered by a two-fingered renegade, who headed a band of Cheyennes." 104 "I know that section -- there's no such pass." 105 "Will you go with Jesson to look for this pass?" 106 The end of track. 107 "Why don't you Eyetalians quit loafin' an' lay some track?" 108 "You sittin' in that cab! If we was movin' a pianner, you're the kind of a feller that would grab the stool." 109 Davy starts with Jesson on his quest. 110 "It would be best if he never came back." 111 "It's a lucky thing, me boy, that ye jumped when I told ye!" 112 "That's another life I've saved!" 113 While a great herd of cattle starts from Texas on an 800-mile trail to feed the railroad workmen. 114 The straggling town of Cheyenne ---- soon to become the next Union Pacific headquarters. 115 "Boys, headquarters gets here in a few days!" 116 MOVING DAY IN NORTH PLATTE Its reign as capital of the Union Pacific is over -- another night and it will be deserted -- with its inhabitants building a new city in distant Cheyenne. 117 Hell on Wheels. 118 "Boys, this bar of justice and likker will still function when we get to Cheyenne - let 'er go!" 119 Friendly Pawnee Indians are employed to guard the workers. 120 Everything but the old houses moves on wheels. 121 The price of the town's last night of orgy. 122 "C'mon ---- the old soak's deep enough!" 123 "I hereby pro-nounce you man and wife --- by heck!" 124 And not even a dog remains. 125 In the Black Hills -- Davy and Jesson have come to Brandon's pass. 126 "It's perfectly safe for you to go down." 127 "Not for me -- thanks!" 128 A new and greater Cheyenne springs into life. 129 "I calc'late to keep law an' order in this here town, Wild Bill Hickok, if I have to shoot the hull population." 130 "I want a deevorce!" 131 "Deevorce! Look here, didn't I marry you in North Platte not more'n ten hours ago? 132 "Now separate!" 133 The three musketeers -- Sergeant Slattery, Corporal Casey, Private Mackay. 134 "Go on -- be a man and a soldier!" 135 "I -- think -- I'd -- rather -- be -- shaved --" 136 "Shure I niver dreamed the roots could go that deep." 137 "Welcome back, Jesson! General Dodge, our engineer-in-chief, is eager for your report." 138 "Sorry, sir -- but there's no pass other than Smoky River." 139 "But young Brandon was so positive -- where is he?" 140 "I deeply regret to say he fell into a ravine and was killed." 141 "Too bad about young Brandon. You must be glad, though, that it happened to him instead of to me, aren't you?" 142 While the great cattle herds rumble along the trail from Kansas. 143 The road of his father's dreams -- his road -- for he, too, is helping to build it. 144 But the rails curve southward toward Smoky River -- has Jesson failed to report the discovery of the shorter pass? 145 "Casey, why are they laying track toward Smoky River?" 146 "There's gonna be a foight!" 147 "They're laying track south -- why?" 148 "Mr. Jesson reported that no other pass was practical." 149 "If you made such a report, you deliberately lied." 150 "You've made a fine mess of it. After Marsh hears what you've done, this place'll be too hot for you --" 151 "So you'd better finish young Brandon the next chance you get ---- or he'll finish you." 152 "Mr. Marsh, my field notes will show you there is a shorter pass ---- and it's practical." 153 "By George! My old orderly, Sergeant Slattery!" 154 "Gin'ral, don't you remimber Corp'ral Casey ---- who stole that chicken fer yer dinner?" 155 Like a flash of gunpowder, rumours of a battle between Davy and Jesson spread through the town. 156 "Bauman's roundin' up his gang here -- looks like they don't mean to give that game kid a chance for his life." 157 "I sent for you, Davy, because I heard there was to be a fight -- promise me you won't have any trouble with Mr. Jesson." 158 "He has a right to his chance --" 159 "But what about me?" 160 "I'm sorry, Miriam -- I forgot you are engaged to Jesson." 161 "Can't you understand? It's not Jesson I love!" 162 "All right, dear -- I promise -- I give you my word I won't fight Jesson." 163 "You coward -- blaze away at him!" 164 "Mr. Jesson, I'm sorry I lost my temper today -- 165 "We're both working for the success of the road ---- so let's forget everything else -- 166 "-- and shake hands." 167 "This here's a law an' order town -- an' this fight's goin' to be conducted legal!" 168 "What is it ---- a fight?" 169 "Quick -- quick -- Brandon's killing Jesson -- you're the only one who can stop him!" 170 "Listen, Miriam! I didn't come here to quarrel with him --" 171 "The you came to drink -- and gamble -- and ----- and dance --" 172 "You came straight from me to this -- this vile den! You're as untrustworthy as he is!" 173 "Drill, ye terriers, drill - Drill, ye terriers, drill - 174 "Sure, it's work all day, Without sugar in yer tay - When ye work for the U.P. Ra-a-ail-way. 175 "Drill, ye paddies, drill, An' work an' shw-e-at -" 176 "With those foreign labourers making trouble, we must stick together!" 177 A spectre from the past visits the great Cheyenne chief. 178 "Does my red brother remember me?" 179 Bauman tries desperately to halt work through the new pass by inciting the hostile Cheyennes to war. 180 "My brother, before many suns we shall stop the iron horse forever ----" 181 Meanwhile the cattle herd nears the end of its long journey -- with Cheyenne only a few miles away. 182 "Pat! They've got Mackay!" 183 "Pat, can you stoke an engine?" 184 "I kin do anything!" 185 "Telegraph Major North to rush his Pawnee scouts to the end o' track!" 186 "Indians at the end o' track!" 187 "Come on, boys - save your fellow-workmen ---- there's a gun here for every one of you!" 188 "Let 'em send soldiers!" 189 "You promise us the beef ---- we no get." 190 "Yer come quietly -- or ye'll never live to be killed by the Redskins, begorra!" 191 "Here they come!" 192 "Here they are, boss ---- ten thousand head of 'em." 193 "Enough good beef to feed you all for a year!" 194 "If the shirkers won't get aboard, we'll stampede the herd -- and frighten them on to the train!" 195 "You wanted beef, did ye? Well, now, ye'll get it, horns an' all!" 196 "That's a sharpshooter close in!" 197 "Bauman!" 198 Like a sweeping wind the Pawnee scouts rush to the rescue. 199 "TWO-FINGERS!" 200 "Put your pride in your pocket, me lad! Tell the sweet, young lady the truth." 201 "No, Pat! As she can't trust me -- I'm off to the Central Pacific which needs men." 202 "Shure an' ye'll have to take me along ---- ye'll be worth nawthing without me." 203 The next day the stage for the West is ready to start. 204 "Me an' Davy are leavin' for the West to take charge of the Central Pacific." 205 "Was Dave Brandon on that coach?" 206 "Shure it's work all day, Without sugar in yer tay, When ye work for the Cay Pay Ra-a-ail-way. 207 "Drill, ye haythens, drill, An' work and shw-e-at." 208 After another year -- over conquered prairie and through riven mountain -- the great roads draw together. 209 The track-laying race! The U.P. leads off by building four miles in one day. The C.P. scores with six. Then the U.P. does eight. 210 At Promontory Point --- by superhuman effort and undaunted courage, the rails will meet seven years sooner than expected. 211 In the heart of one man there is no rivalry. 212 -- to him the tracks will meet and roads will be one --- a shining path from sea to sea. 213 "Davy!" 214 "Dinny!" 215 "Wurra, what a happy man Serg'nt Slattery would be to see this great day!" 216 "Me, I Irish now, too -- I marry Nora Hogan!" 217 He stands alone that night and sees the consummation of his father's dream. 218 With his own hands he has driven the last spike -- the buckle in the girdle of a continent. 219 The wedding of the rails -- celebrated with joyous exultation in the uniting of East and West. The afternoon of May 10, 1869. Note: The locomotives shown in the scene are the original Jupiter and #116. 220 "You belong on this side, Davy." 221 "When they drive the golden spike we'll belong to both sides -- and each other." 222 California has sent a golden spike to mark the completion of the great enterprise. 223 As hammer falls on golden spike, the wire carries to every telegraph office the message D-O-N-E! 224 "His Truth is marching on." The End