Friendship in the 19th-century sense was a relationship devoid of any affection in which people pursued common ends by scratching each other’s back. The railroad businessmen were friends with ...

The latter half of the 19th century saw the "golden age" of the American cowboy; newly-built railroad lines made it easier to transport cattle from the western plains to the east coast ...

The “silent spikes,” as scholars have dubbed the nameless Chinese, had constituted the largest single work force in U.S. industry during the mid-19th century—only to be erased from the ...

The remnants of a railroad that went bankrupt in 1888 have become one of the highest-flying stocks in the oil patch—and one of the top performers in any sector this year. Shares of Texas Pacific ...