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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8274719, member: 20201&quot;]<b><font size="6">1967 Nebraska Statehood</font></b></p><p><b><font size="6">Heraldic Art Medal</font></b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460941[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460943[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Union Pacific was the eastern railroad company that started out in The Nebraska Territory and met the Central Pacific railroad company laying track from Sacramento California in the west on the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460947[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Many workers died on the railroad from accidents.</p><p>Indians attacked many railroad crews, but most of the fighting took place along the Union Pacific line in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado.</p><p>Native Americans attacked not only out of revenge for the loss of their lands or in defense of their ways of life, but also because the construction crews often had many supplies that the Indians needed—food, weapons, livestock, and tools.</p><p><br /></p><p>Union Pacific crews were harassed by Plains Indians, mainly because white hunters were slaughtering prodigious numbers of buffaloes to feed the construction crews.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nearly every one of the construction managers and engineers who built the Union Pacific road had served as Union officers in the Civil War, and they brought their organizational and logistical prowess to bear in commanding the work.</p><p>The chief railroad engineer, Grenville Dodge, had rebuilt lines in the South during the war while serving as a Union general.</p><p><br /></p><p>On Dec. 2, 1863, construction began on the railroad in Omaha, Nebraska Territory, but only made 40 miles by the end of 1865. The following year the line made it 260 miles, stopping at North Platte, Nebraska Territory for the winter.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460944[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>Union Pacific Railroad directors gather on the 100th meridian, which later became Cozad, Nebraska, 250 miles west of Omaha.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1867 the road made it another 240 miles before stopping at Granite Canyon on the slopes of the Laramie Range west of Cheyenne.</p><p>The next year, construction raced across 500 miles of southern Wyoming, entering Utah at the beginning of 1869.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460942[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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