Their parents had died, and they’d gone to work for the Union Pacific at age 16. The book offers the engineer’s story while sprinkling in bits of American history. (“When my parents came out to Cheyenne from Minnesota, there wasn’t any way to cross this country except by wagon…...
Up top, Wes hooked up the other horse to pull the wagon to the jeep trail, and then both horses to haul the jacket out to the road on a sled. I missed that part–I had gone back to the quarry to grab tools before it got dark–but Brian got the whole thing on video, and it ...