RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Iron Shield
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Iron Horse
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Iron Ranger
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Iron Man
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Detailed explanation-1: -Powerful, steam-belching railroad locomotives, or iron horses as the Indians called them, now rode the Plains where buffalo once roamed.
Detailed explanation-2: -They called him the “Iron Horse”-the nickname Native Americans gave to trains when they first traversed the great land of ours. Because trains were built of steel. They were dependable.
Detailed explanation-3: -Native American Animals: Horse (Sun’ka wakan) is a Relative to the People.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Iron horse” is a literary term for a train or locomotive.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Iron Horse Corridor was once the Southern Pacific Railroad’s San Ramon Valley Branch Line. The line was built in the early 1890s and the first train ran in June 1891. The railroad played a key role in the development of central Contra Costa County.