Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier By V V Masterson Hard Cover

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Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier By V V Masterson Hard Cover
 
The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier By V V Masterson
Soft Cover
Copyright  1952, 1978  1988 printing inscription on first page
312 pages  Indexed.  
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Forewordvii
Introductionxv
1. The Awakening West3
2. A Railroad Is Born9
3. A Railroad Is Organized14
4. The Derail19
5. Rebirth of the "Katy"26
6. "Lined and Locked for the Main"31
7. Missouri "Lined and Locked"39
8. The Race to the Indian Territory46
9. The Katy Wins!63
10. The Katy Invades Missouri77
ii. Birth of a City88
12. Down Through the Cherokee Nation 98
13. The "Trail of Tears"112
14. Into the Creek (Mus-ko-gee) Country 120
15. The Three Forks Settlements134
i6. Mus-ko-gee140
17. Breaking the Pacific Strangle Hold148
18. Through the Choctaw Nation to McAlester152

The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier
19. Last Span of the "Indian Bridge"164
20. Denison, the Gate City175
21. First into Texas from the North183
22. Sedalia Gateway Opened-On to Chicago!193
23. The Panic of 1873200
24. The Dark Years208
25. Rise of Gould's Missouri Pacific214
26. The Katy Enters Fort Worth219
27. The Rape of the Katy222
28. The Katy Enters Dallas226
29. The Texas Land-Grant Myth230
30. The Passing of Colonel Robert S. Stevens236
31. The End of the Gould Regime239
32. The Oklahoma District Run of 1889243
33. Recovery on the Katy248
34. The Cherokee Outlet-the Run of 1893 251
35. Bandits-the Daltons and Others255
36. Progress-and the Great Train Wreck 263
37. Progress-Oklahoma Becomes a State 268
38. Land-Grant Race-Winner Disqualified275
39. The Katy Attains Full Growth278
40. Two World Wars282
41. The Katy Today287
Bibliography291
Index299

Illustrations
Judge Levi Parsonsfacing page 32
John Scullinfacing page 33
Bob Greenwell in the guise of a Quapaw chief34
J. West Goodwin of the Daily Bazoo42
Ladore, Kansas, May 11, 187056
Robert Smith Stevensfacing page 64
Chief Engineer Gunn's locating party;
Colbert's ferryfacing page 65
The Katy's first printed time card80
Public sale, Parsons, Kansas, March 8, 187195
Parsons, Kansas, in 1871; the Katy station fire
at Parsons, March 17, 1912facing page 96
Motive power of the early seventiesfacing page 97
Katy inspection train stopped by Kaw Indians111
The Texas Trail118
Vinita (I. T.) townsite battle129
A "Terminus Type"136
M. K. & T. Inspection Train139
First railroad bridge across the Arkansas River141
A dance hall in new-born Denison, Texasfacing page 144
A contemporary Katy advertisementfacing page 145
Secretary Cox fired upon at Eufaula, April, 1872158
"Posey's Hole"; the extraordinary wreck of
June 14, 1873facing page 16o
Cotton compress at Denison, Texas; Muskogee
depot in the seventiesfacing page 161
Red ( Ranger Captain Lee) Hall189
George Denisonfacing page 192
The Katy's bridge across the Missouri River
at Boonville, Missourifacing page 193
Land scrip233
Two early railroad construction scenesfacing page 240
Steam power of the mid-seventiesfacing page 241
Employee's report of train robbery256
M. K. & T. advertisement of the nineties267
The famous planned wreck at Crush, Texas facing page 272
End of the era of steamfacing page 273

Maps
The Last Frontier, about 18616
Projected Frontier Railroads, about 186512
Projected Katy expansion, March 187037
Construction race to the Indian Territory border, June 1870 75
The Founding of Parsons, Kansas, March 187197
The Katy reaches the Three Forks, October 1871132
The Three Forks, 1871-72143
Projected Northeastern Extension, 1872149
Poster-map, after completion of the Northeastern Extension, 1873        195
Projected extensions into Texas, 1878213
The Katy at the end of the Gould regime, 1888235
The Katy at the opening of the twentieth century270
The Katy Lines in 1915283
The Katy today, 1952290

One of the last areas of the United States to be invaded by hardy pioneer stocks was the central West-from St. Louis west to Kansas thence south through Oklahoma and into Texas. It was not until after the Civil War that intensive development began in this vast area of mid-America, and the pace-setter was not so much the prairie schooner as it was a much newer development, the railroad.
In the race from Missouri and Kansas to the Gulf of Mexico, and Missouri-Kansas-Texas Company led the way. A dynamic, hard-hitting road, conceived by Judge Levi Parsons from the East and built at prodigious speed by Colonel Bob Stevens, its general manager, the Katy beat all competitors to the northern border of Indian Territory in 1870-more than two decades before the opening of the Cherokee Strip and the formation of Oklahoma Territory. But the Katy did not stop at the entrance to Indian Territory; rather, it plunged southward across Red River into Texas, and then was forced to build in the other direction at the same time, ultimately linking St. Louis with the lush developing areas of southern Texas and the Gulf.
This book, tracing the history of the Katy from its earliest beginnings to the present, is railroad history at its best: objectively written, revealing the human failings as well as the titanic achievements of early-day railroad builders in the Southwest. It depicts the construction problems involved in shoving a line through new territory, the battle for townsite spoils, the rise of towns and cities, the financial struggles between roads and their respective Eastern financial backers, and the development of an entirely new civilization as a consequence of rail transportation.


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