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  • | Book

    Railroad Strike Violence at Martinsburg, WV

    In this excerpt from The Story of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Historian Edward Hungerford offers an account of the violence at Martinsburg, WV during the 1877 railroad strike. This selection also includes Allan Pinkerton's vivid description of the event.

  • | Time Table

    Grand Trunk Pacific

  • | Time Table

    Grand Trunk Raolway System

  • | Time Table

    The Denver Road

  • | Time Table

    International & Great Northern Railroad

  • | Time Table

    International & Great Northern Railroad

  • | Timetable

    Great Northern Railway Route of the "Pacific Fast Mail"

  • | Time Table

    Official Hand-Book and Local Time Tables of the Kansas City Pittsburgh & Gulf R.R.

  • | Timetable

    Grand Trunk Railway System Complete Time Tables

  • | Time Table

    Official Hand-Book and Local Time Tables of the Kansas City Pittsburgh & Gulf R.R.

  • | Newspaper

    The Avalanche

    The Republican State Journal celebrates the Republican victory in the November 1894 state and Congressional elections.

  • | Newspaper

    Continued Misrepresentation

    Bryan's World Herald defends his record on behalf of the working man and against Republican charges that he favors wage reductions.

  • | Newspaper

    The Guardian Angel of Trusts and Monopolies

    Speech by William Jennings Bryan.

  • | Newspaper

    The Corporation Anaconda

    Republican editor Edward Rosewater attacks "the corporation anaconda" he sees in the Nebraska 1894 campaign. The intimidation of railroad employees and the organization and direction of railroad money are his chief targets.

  • | Newspaper

    Representing the People

    Conservative Republicans organized "Business Men's Associations" in the 1894 campaign to fund and support Republican candidates, elect John M. Thurston, and defeat William Jennings Bryan. These associations spawned considerable political debate about the role of business in politics.

  • | Newspaper

    Heard From the Two Johns

    The Republican paper emphasizes the split in the Democratic party between Bryan and the Cleveland administration.

  • | Newspaper

    Want Better Mail Service

    The quality, availability, and cost of railroad service in a local community often became a contentious political issue pitting locals against non-locals and spilling into local political contests. The Omaha Bee, an enemy of railroad power of any sort, emphasizes the local community's "right" to equal service.

  • | Newspaper

    Railroad Cry

    In this advertisement in Bryan's World Herald, the State Republican Party of Nebraska presents the case against Bryan and Populism as harmful to the state's interests. Populism "burns up value" in Nebraska's assets, the ad charges, and accuses fellow Republican Edward Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Daily Bee, of perfidy and betrayal. The ad depicts Rosewater, a Jew, as a "Shylock" and "petty" tyrant, emphasizing instead the manliness of the Republican candidates and leaders.

  • | Newspaper

    The Political Pot

    Bryan's World Herald reports on the endorsements of labor organizations.

  • | Newspaper

    Hitting Back Hard

    Republican editor Edward Rosewater attacks the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad as the silent moving force behind the conservative Omaha business men's associations and their efforts to persuade voters in smaller towns to support Tom Majors for governor.