By William A. Mckenzie

An affectionate historical past of the eating vehicle provider of the Northen Pacific Railway together with its huge commissary procedure. It used to be initially released as eating motor vehicle Line to the Pacific in 1990, through the Minnesota old Society Press. a wide portion of NPR recipes is incorporated. Annotation 2004 publication information, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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The Lake Superior & Puget Sound Company's welltraveled president located Tenino, Newaukem, Olequa, and Kalama, Washington, but at Kalama it was merely a formality: two dozen buildings occupied the site when he arrived. Aside from blessing the engineers' choice, his principal contribution at Kalama was a hotel and restaurant, which he named Kazano House after a local Indian leader. Its owner was the townsite company, not the railroad, but NP passengers would later patronize the restaurant. Although it was completed during February 1871, before the NP's Headquarters Hotel at Brainerd, it must take second place in the railroad's dining facility chronology, for tracklaying began at Kalama after April 29, 1871, by which time the Minnesota city already had at least a modicum of train service.

Sheridan, then commander of the Military Division of the Missouri, headquartered at Chicago. Sheridan's command included the Department of the Dakota, where the Sioux barred NP progress beyond the Missouri in 1873. The Indians had agreed in treaties to allow the railroad to cross their unceded territory, but they well understood that white settlers followed the railroad. He had replaced the few detachments of infantry from Fort Rice that had been assigned to protect the engineers with the Seventh Cavalry, based at Fort Lincoln, and the mounted Sioux met mounted enemies.

Custer provided an idealized account of the incident: When we reached St. Paul the prospect before us was dismal, as the trains were not to begin running until April, at the soonest. The railroad officials, mindful of what the general had done for them in protecting their advance workers in the building of the road, came and offered to open the route. . The train on which we finally started was an immense one, and certainly a curiosity. There were two snowploughs and three enormous engines; freightcars with coal supplies and baggage; several cattlecars, with stock belonging to the Black Hills miners who filled the passenger-coaches.

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