The History of Kansas Railroads  Click on year for that time
period's information  [ 1800 ] [ 1850 ] [ 1875 ] [ 1900 ] [ 1950
] [ 2000 ]   The Louisiana Territory was purchased from France,
by the United States, this started the new era settlement for
the Kansa Indian tribe.   Treaties between the federal
government and the Kansa and Osage tribes.  The last chief of
the Kansa Indians, the man on the right was identified as Wah-
shung-gah.  The South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company
operated the first American-built train.  This is the era of the
transcontinental railroads in American.  Over time railroads
would be built westward.  Laying the rails on UP Railroad at two
miles a day.   President Millard Fillmore signed the first
railroad land-grant act.  From this date on, railroad
transportation has been the most important factor in the
development of the western part of the United States.    A
purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to open the country to
the transcontinental railways to connect the east wit