AFAM 002B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Theodore Judah, Hell On Wheels (Tv Series), Truckee River

• School: SJSU
• Department: African-American Studies
• Course: AFAM 002B
• Professor: Steven Millner

Document Summary

Irish boiled beef, boiled beans, boiled coffee: didn"t come down with dysentery the way the irish did, better than working in china with famine and starvation. Arapaho: skilled on horseback, bow and arrow. Indians were sustained by buffalo, able to use it 52 different ways. Inside the man-made caves, work continued, around the clock, in 3 8-hour shifts, I have no sympathy with the red devils, wrote one surveyor, May the greedy crow and dark-winged raven hover over their silent corpses. May the coyote feast on their stiff and festering carcasses. Civilization will be satisfied when they cease to be. : at end of august, they reach the summit, and rejoice. In one 3-month span, there were 4 separate crashes on the cp line, crushed and burned engineers, wasted material. Iron workers in pennsylvania died from furnace blasts: great railroad project devoured lives, hundreds, maybe thousands, of chinese workers died near the summit.