>>EXCERPT ONE— When The Railroad Arrived “Hell on Wheels” Followed: Early Cheyenne was essentially an itinerant collection of flimsily assembled gambling houses, dance halls, saloons, and brothels that followed the army of Union Pacific railroad workers westward as they constructed the First Transcontinental Railroad. >>EXCERPT TWO— Two Nations. One Reservation. The federal government forced the Northern Arapaho onto the Shoshone reservation in 1876 after it failed to provide a promised separate reservation. The two tribes had been in open warfare as recently as four years before, & bad feelings lingered between them. >>EXCERPT THREE— The Irma Hotel is a landmark in Cody, Wyoming. It was built by William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody who named it after his daughter Irma Cody. A focal point is a famous back bar made of cherry that was a gift given by Queen Victoria to Buffalo Bill.
