My husband and I were two of 20,000 people on Friday who celebrated the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah. Within three years of its completion, trains could travel from New York City to San Francisco in just one week. Prior to that, travelers endured up to 6 months or more of dangerous travel by ship or covered wagon to cross the continent.
The transcontinental railroad was built by Civil War veterans from both the North and the South who worked together, along with Mormon settlers, African-Americans, Native Americans, and Chinese laborers. Building from the West, the Central Pacific Railroad hired 15,000 workers, of whom 12,000 or more were Chinese immigrants. These men had to blast through the granite of the imposing Sierra Nevada mountains and it was dangerous work using explosives. Many lost their lives.
Fireworks lit up the afternoon sky and a flyover of four planes in formation, saluted this grand achievement--the most important engineering feat of the 19th century and a symbol of the east and west coming together to make the United States one connected nation filled with many ethnicities who worked together to get the job done.
I wrote an erotic western about a young woman's time spent with the men who built the transcontinental railroad.
Told by a plucky 18-year-old, this sexy western is about her time spent with the men who built the transcontinental railroad and the prostitutes who traveled with them in rowdy makeshift towns nicknamed Hell on Wheels.
A coming of age story, humorous at times, it is about how she loses her innocence step-by-step and leaves behind her moral Mormon upbringing and eventually earns money writing erotic stories based upon what she sees when a prostitute in the camp brings customers back to their room.
Falling in love and lust with several men along the way, she meets a surveyor for the railroad who offers her a different life. Will she be able to leave behind what she has seen and experienced in the Hell on Wheels camps? And will one man be enough? Very sexually explicit and meant for adults only.
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Also available in paperback at Amazon.
