Contents
Acknowledgments
Part One: Beginnings
Chapter 1 - A Proposal
Chapter 2 - Lead Railroads Come to Western Michigan Territory
Chapter 3 - Railroads and the Creation of Wisconsin Territory
Chapter 4 - The Territorial Years
Part Two: The First Railroad
Chapter 5 - Establishing a Company
Chapter 6 - Milwaukee to Waukesha: Picking the Route
Chapter 7 - Construction Begins
Chapter 8 - Rails and Locomotives
Chapter 9 - A Railroad is Born
Chapter 10 - Growing Pains
Chapter 11 - Wisconsin’s Only Railroad
Part Three: New Growth
Chapter 12 - In the Rock River Valley
Chapter 13 - The New Contenders
Chapter 14 - The Scramble for New Routes
Chapter 15 - Complete to Madison
Part Four: The Great Building Boom
Chapter 16 - Western Goals and Eastern Connections
Chapter 17 - An Explosion of Railroads
Chapter 18 - The Struggle for Land Grants
Chapter 19 - Reaching the Mississippi
Part Five: Hard Times and Recovery
Chapter 20 - A Peculiar Hardship
Chapter 21 - Reorganization
Chapter 22 - New Beginnings
Epilogue
Afterword
Notes
Subject Index
People and Place Name Index