Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad

by Dick Kreck and David Halass

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555919480
• ISBN13: 9781555919481
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"