Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow Quotes

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― Dee Brown, Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads

“Another of Whitney’s enemies was Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, a leader in the national movement to acquire more Western territory for the United States. Benton wanted St. Louis to be the terminus for the transcontinental route, and quoted his son-in-law, the five-foot-two-inch-tall explorer John C. Frémont, as advocating “a great central path” along the Santa Fe Trail to Bent’s Fort and then through the Rockies at Cochetopa Pass, In one of his speeches Benton visualized an Iron Horse puffing alongside a Rocky Mountain peak transformed by a sculptor into a giant statue of Columbus, with one arm extended westward, the other holding an inscribed tablet: THERE LIES THE EAST! THERE LIES INDIA! As for Sam Houston of Texas, he of course wanted assurances”
― Dee Brown, Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads

“In the first years of the nineteenth century, many Americans were keenly interested in reports from England that told of astounding progress in the use of steam-propelled engines. These”
― Dee Brown, Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads