Author: Dick Kreck

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1555919529

Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West.