_By_ CY WARMAN, _author of "The Express Messenger," etc. With Maps, and
many Illustrations by B. West Clinedinst and from Photographs_.
As we understand it, the editor's ruling idea in this series has not
been to present chronology or statistics or set essays on the social and
political development of the great West, but to give to us vivid
pictures of the life and the times in the period of great development,
and to let us see the men at their work, their characters, and their
motives. The choice of an author has been fortunate. In Mr. Warman's
book we are kept constantly reminded of the fortitude, the suffering,
the enterprise, and the endurance of the pioneers. We see the glowing
imagination of the promoter, and we see the engineer scouting the plains
and the mountains, fighting the Indians, freezing and starving, and
always full of a keen enthusiasm for his work and of noble devotion to
his duty. The construction train and the Irish boss are not forgotten,
and in the stories of their doings we find not only courage and
adventure, but wit and humor.--_The Railroad Gazette._