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013 - Nomenclature of the Union Pacific Railroad · Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad

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  Speaker 1: Section thirteen of the Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad
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  Speaker 1: by William Francis Bailey. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Recording by Paul Harvey. Appendix three. Nomenclature of
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  Speaker 1: the Union Pacific Railroad. There are two versions of the
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  Speaker 1: name Union Pacific. One that it was the expression of
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  Speaker 1: the union sentiment prevalent among its projectors and builders, it
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  Speaker 1: being named during the dark and gloomy days of the
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  Speaker 1: War of the Rebellion. The other being that the whole
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  Speaker 1: project was the union of many and varied projects, all
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  Speaker 1: looking to the building of a Pacific railroad, and it
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  Speaker 1: was natural that the proposition that embraced them all should
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  Speaker 1: be called the Union Pacific. We would rather believe it
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  Speaker 1: was somewhat of both of these reasons that brought about
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  Speaker 1: the name and question. Council Bluffs, Iowa received its name
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  Speaker 1: from a council being held there in eighteen o four
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  Speaker 1: between Lewis and Clark's expedition and a party of Otto
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  Speaker 1: and Missouri Indians. Omaha Nebraska, named after a tribe of
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  Speaker 1: Indians variously known as Mahas or Omaha's Papion. Nebraska called
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  Speaker 1: after the creek on which it is located. Named by
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  Speaker 1: Lewis and Clark and derived from a Latin word meaning butterfly.
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  Speaker 1: Millard Nebraska named after the Honorable Ezra Millard, a prominent
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  Speaker 1: citizen of Omaha in the early days. Elkhorn Nebraska, so
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  Speaker 1: called from the Elkhorn River nearby. Fremont Nebraska, named after
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  Speaker 1: General Fremont. The Pathfinder. Ames Nebraska, named after Oliver Ames,
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  Speaker 1: one of the prominent in the history of the road.
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  Speaker 1: The place was originally called Ketchum. North Bend, Nebraska, so
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  Speaker 1: named from a northward bend in the Platte River. Shiler Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: named after Shiler Colefax, vice President of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Nebraska was first settled by a party of Germans
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  Speaker 1: from Columbus, Ohio, who named it after their old home.
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  Speaker 1: Clark Nebraska, called after S. H. H. Clark, General Superintendent
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  Speaker 1: of the road while it was being constructed. Central City, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: originally called Lone Tree, named Central City owing to the
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska Central Railroad making connection there with the Union Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: Chapman Nebraska, called after a roadmaster of that name. Lockwood Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: named after a storekeeper of that name located there in
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  Speaker 1: the early days. Grand Island, Nebraska, named after an island
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  Speaker 1: in the Platte River. Wood River, Nebraska, called after a
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  Speaker 1: stream of that name adjacent to the town. Shelton, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: named after the cashier of the company at Omaha. Karney Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: named after General Kearney of Mexican War fame, was the
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  Speaker 1: site of Old Fort Kearney, established in eighteen fifty eight
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  Speaker 1: for the protection of the overland route. Cozad, Nebraska, named
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  Speaker 1: after a gentleman from Cincinnati, Ohio, who, purchasing forty thousand
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  Speaker 1: acres from the railroad, laid out the town. Willow Island, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: so named from the large number of willow bushes on
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  Speaker 1: an island in the Platte River nearby. Brady's Island, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: from an adjacent island in the Platte River. Oglala, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: from the Oglala, a division of the Sioux or Dakota
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  Speaker 1: tribe of Indians, of which spotted Tail was the most
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  Speaker 1: famous chief. The word means throwing at or into. Bruel, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: from the Bruel Sioux. Red Cloud was its most famous chief.
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  Speaker 1: The word is French meaning burnt. They call themselves burnt Thighs.
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  Speaker 1: Big Springs, Nebraska, named after several large springs in the vicinity,
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  Speaker 1: a noted camping ground on the Overland Jewlesburg, Nebraska, named
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  Speaker 1: after an agent of the Overland Mail Company variously referred
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  Speaker 1: to as Jewles Bernard Jules, Benny jules Burg, or Dirty Jewels,
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  Speaker 1: who was at one time agent of the Stage Company
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  Speaker 1: at that point. Lodge Pole, Colorado from a stream of
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  Speaker 1: that name, which the railroad follows for some little distance.
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  Speaker 1: Sydney Nebraska, named after Sidney Dillon, at one time president
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  Speaker 1: of the Union Pacific. Brownson Nebraska called after a former
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  Speaker 1: general freight agent of the company. Kimball Nebraska named after
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  Speaker 1: Thomas L. Kimball, general passenger agent and afterwards general manager.
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  Speaker 1: Pine Bluffs, Wyoming takes its name from the stunted growth
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  Speaker 1: along the adjacent bluffs. Hillsdale, Wyoming named after an engineer
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  Speaker 1: Hill who was killed here during the preliminary survey. Cheyenne,
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  Speaker 1: Wyoming from an Indian tribe of that name. The word
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be derived from the French chen a
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  Speaker 1: daw ug and too mean dog soldier. Other authorities connected
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  Speaker 1: with the Indian word Schallana, meaning red or red man. Beauford,
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  Speaker 1: Wyoming named after Old Fort Buford Sherman, Wyoming, the highest
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  Speaker 1: point on the line, named after the tallest General Sherman
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  Speaker 1: in the Union Army. Tie Siding, Wyoming. Vast quantities of
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  Speaker 1: ties were shipped from this point for use in the construction,
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  Speaker 1: They coming from the mountains in the vicinity. Laramie Wyoming.
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  Speaker 1: The name comes from Jacques Laramie, a fur trader who
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  Speaker 1: was killed in this vicinity by the Indians in eighteen twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Medicine Beau Wyoming, from the Medicine Beau Mountains, among which
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  Speaker 1: it is situated. Fort Steele, Wyoming from Fort fred Steel,
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  Speaker 1: established in eighteen sixty eight on the same site. Rawlins Wyoming,
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  Speaker 1: named after General John A. Rawlins, General Grant's chief of
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  Speaker 1: staff and his first secretary of War. Creston Wyoming, so
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  Speaker 1: called from being the crest of the rocky mountains. Green
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  Speaker 1: River Wyoming from the river of that name, whose waters
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  Speaker 1: run through a green shale, and while not discoloring the water,
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  Speaker 1: impart that shade to the river. Bitter Creek Wyoming from
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  Speaker 1: the creek of that name, so called from the character
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  Speaker 1: of its water. Granger Wyoming, named after an old settler,
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  Speaker 1: a mister Granger. Ogden Utah, named after Peter Ogden and
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  Speaker 1: attache of the Hudson Bay Company, who lived in this
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  Speaker 1: vicinity in the eighteen thirties. End of section thirteen. Recording
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  Speaker 1: by Paul hart Hevee