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Story of the Santa Fe, The by Glenn D Bradley w/ dust ajcket
The Story of the Santa Fe by Glenn D Bradley
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
387 pages
Copyright 1995
CONTENTS
Publisher's Noteiv
Forewardv
Prefaceviii
I. THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL1
The forerunner of a great railroad - Route of the Old Trail -The Spanish Explorers - Lieutenant Pike - Early Traders - The Santa Fe Caravan; Growth of the Overland Trade - Description of old Santa Fe - The Overland Stage - The passing of the Trail as a great wagon highway.
II. CYRUS K. HOLLIDAY: THE MAN WITH A BIG IDEA 25
Early career of Mr. Holliday - Founds the City of Topeka - His ambitions for a railroad - Early railroad projects in Kansas - The Atchison & Topeka Railroad chartered - The Railroad Convention of 1860 - Drought and Civil War - A delayed enterprise - The Congressional Land Grant Act of 1863 - Supplementary State Legislation - Holliday's apparent success - More delay.
III. THE BEGINNINGS OF A GREAT RAILROAD41
Holliday's famous message - The enterprise started at last -Thomas J. Peter - Early construction - The first excursions over the new road - Growing towns along the line - Out across the prairies - A real railroad comes into existence.
IV. THE RAILROAD FRONTIER53
Growth of the cattle business made possible by the first railways across the plains - Frontier conditions - Early days in Dodge City - Conditions as they were -Tragedies - The vigilantes - Conflict between military and civil authority - Episodes.
V. COLONIZING THE PRAIRIES67
The land grant: a checkerboard allotment - First efforts of the Santa Fe land department - D.L. Lakin, a pioneer land commissioner - Surveys under A.E. Touzalin - The first big land selling campaign - The Mennonites: their early history -A Santa Fe land agent in Europe - The coming of the Mennonites - Bishop Wiebe's story - Settlers flock to Kansas from the Middle states - The editors' excursion - Significance of the Santa Fe's colonizing efforts.
VI. INTO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS90
William B. Strong elected President of the Company - Plans for extending the line into New Mexico - The Santa Fe reaches Kansas City - The growth of western traffic - Strong's little scheme and the way it worked - Two strategic mountain passes - Skirmishing for position - The Leadville prize - Morely's ride - On the eve of conflict.
VII. THE OPENING STRUGGLE FOR
THE GRAND CA106
An appeal to the Courts - Excitement deepens - Bluffing and counterbluffing - The first round in the state courts - Expressions of local sentiment - The Denver and Rio Grande lease.
VIII. THE GRAND CAWAR CONCLUDED117
A railroad pool and its results - Preparations for "War" - Attorney General Wright - Recriminations - The first Supreme Court decision - A victory for the D&RG - Sidelights on the "War" - The state courts again injected: a new angle to proceedings - A Santa Fe victory in the Federal Court - A receivership subterfuge - Peace at last: a gentleman's agreement.
IX. AN OUTLET TO THE PACIFIC137
The last Santa Fe stage - Summary of building progress -The Grand CaWar a cloak for larger decisions -Railroad strategy - Down the Valley of the Rio Grande - The Atlantic & Pacific Railroad - The Southern Pacific takes a hand in the game - The St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad - C.P. Huntington versus Strong - Blocked at the Colorado River - A counter move across Old Mexico - A salt water port at last.
X VIGOROUS EXPANSION 154
What had been happening in Kansas - The Southern Kansas Railway - Feeder lines - How small towns celebrated the arrival of a railroad - A three cornered agreement - The Santa Fe finally enters California on Southern Pacific terms -The Mojave line: stiff rent - Getting a grip on Southern California - Strategic amalgamations - An outlet through Texas to the Gulf of Mexico - The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad - Building across the Panhandle.
XI. A DREAM FULFILLED175
The Santa Fe: a great system hemmed in by the Missouri River - Inroads of competitors - An outlet to the Great Lakes demanded - Chicago: the eastward goal - A daring undertaking - The Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railway -Some aspects of the problem - Masterful organization - Tremendous activity - Bridging great rivers - Into Chicago - A dream fulfilled.
XII. TROUBLES THREATEN: THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT STRONG187
Ironical consequences - An age of railroad growth - The expansive policies of a great railroad leader - Business conditions become threatening - Poor crops - Labor troubles - The crisis subsides - New Hopes - A directorate quarrel: the unexpected - Mr. Strong resigns.
XIII. THE FIRST REORGANIZATION: MORE EXPANSION199
Allen Manvel - A new plan for financial relief - The plan of reorganization - Reinhart the clever financier - Astonishing success of the reorganization - Renewed expansion - The purchase of the St. Louis & San Francisco and the Colorado Midlands roads - Contingent risks - Could the company carry the new burdens? - A vast railway system - Top heavy.
XIV. DARK DAYS216
Death of President Manvel - Withdrawal of Albert A. Robinson - Financial storms on the horizon - Reinhart's reassurances - The Panic of 1893 - Receivership - Why the company failed - Problems of readjustment - Suspicions - Stephen Little's disclosures and what they revealed - Reinhart under fire - He resigns the Presidency of the Santa Fe - New encouragement.
XV. THE FINAL REORGANIZATION236
Specific problems to be adjusted - Some committees - A preliminary scheme and why it failed - A plan that has worked - The task of lopping off dead weight.
XVI. THE ACCESSION OF PRESIDENT EDWARD PAYSON RIPLEY250
Ripley's early career - A sound record - The problems he faced - St. Louis & San Francisco and the Colorado Midland lines severed from the System - Compactness secured - Independent auditors.
XVII. SOLID GROWTH262
A survey of the last twenty years under Mr. Ripley - Rehabilitation of the Company: of its physical properties and its finances - Steady but cautious expansion - Progress year by year - Accumulating a cash reserve - Floating debts not tolerated -Anti-railroad sentiment - High taxes - The triumph of good management - A new transcontinental route - Into San Francisco - Headed toward Oregon - Nearing New Orleans - The "Ripley Way" of conducting a railroad.
XVIII. THE STORY OF THE SANTA FE AS TOLD IN FIGURES290
Animated statistics: Mileage, capitalization, earnings, traffic, land grant operations, rolling stock and brief analysis of mileage operations.
DOCUMENTARY APPENDIX316
Company Presidents - The original Santa Fe charter - the present charter - The Land Grant Act of 1863 - The Kansas legislative act of acceptance 1864 - Dead, inactive and absorbed companies.
SOURCE MATERIALS372
INDEX 379
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
The story of the Santa Fe is one of adventure and enterprise.
Following the route of the famous old Santa Fe trail, the railroad pushed steadily onward until it added an industrial empire to the United States. It has been mainly responsible for the colonizing development and permanent occupancy of the greater portion of that region included within the present limits of Kansas, Southern Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and much of California.
This material has all been culled from authentic sources such as the archives of the Santa Fe Railroad and the private papers of its offices.
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