"The Iron Horse" by Edwin C. Hill. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1924). Photoplay edition with scenes from the John Ford production
“This novel portrays in an absorbing way one of the very greatest events in American history, the building of the first transcontinental railway. It is an epic of titanic labor, Man pitted against Nature in the shock of combat. Across the great trail falls the majestic shadow of Lincoln, the Builder, Lincoln who foresaw that an empire would spring to life with the first magnetic touch of the steel shod hoof of the Iron Horse. Against the background of the thrilling life of the Old West is thrown a vivid picture of the terrific building race between the two roads which were to unite and make one: Of the battles with the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes, of the bad, mad towns which mushroomed and decayed as the rails thrust forward like shining rapiers: Of the heroic exploits of unconquerable men: the whole mellowed with a love story of the most appealing charm.” [Quoting the blurb on the dust jacket]
“William Fox’s “The Iron Horse: A Romance of the East and the West,” a John Ford Production, Three Years in the Making. The Characters and the Players include:
Davy Brandon (George O’Brien)
Miriam Marsh (Madge Bellamy)
Abraham Lincoln (Charles Edward Bull)
Thomas Marsh ( Will Walling)
Deroux (Fred Kohler)
Peter Jesson (Cyril Chadwick) . . .
. . . And a regiment of United States troops and cavalry, 3,000 railway workmen, 1,000 Chinese laborers, 800 Pawnee, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, 2,800 horses, 1,300 buffalo, 10,000 Texas steers. (Special Note: The actual old-time locomotives and equipment which figured in the building of the Trans-Continental Railway are used throughout “The Iron Horse” – “Jupiter,” of the Central Pacific, and “119,” of the Union Pacific.) [As stated on the rear panel of the dust jacket]
"The Iron Horse" by Edwin C. Hill. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1924). Photoplay edition with scenes from the John Ford production
“This novel portrays in an absorbing way one of the very greatest events in American history, the building of the first transcontinental railway. It is an epic of titanic labor, Man pitted against Nature in the shock of combat. Across the great trail falls the majestic shadow of Lincoln, the Builder, Lincoln who foresaw that an empire would spring to life with the first magnetic touch of the steel shod hoof of the Iron Horse. Against the background of the thrilling life of the Old West is thrown a vivid picture of the terrific building race between the two roads which were to unite and make one: Of the battles with the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes, of the bad, mad towns which mushroomed and decayed as the rails thrust forward like shining rapiers: Of the heroic exploits of unconquerable men: the whole mellowed with a love story of the most appealing charm.” [Quoting the blurb on the dust jacket]
“William Fox’s “The Iron Horse: A Romance of the East and the West,” a John Ford Production, Three Years in the Making. The Characters and the Players include:
Davy Brandon (George O’Brien)
Miriam Marsh (Madge Bellamy)
Abraham Lincoln (Charles Edward Bull)
Thomas Marsh ( Will Walling)
Deroux (Fred Kohler)
Peter Jesson (Cyril Chadwick) . . .
. . . And a regiment of United States troops and cavalry, 3,000 railway workmen, 1,000 Chinese laborers, 800 Pawnee, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, 2,800 horses, 1,300 buffalo, 10,000 Texas steers. (Special Note: The actual old-time locomotives and equipment which figured in the building of the Trans-Continental Railway are used throughout “The Iron Horse” – “Jupiter,” of the Central Pacific, and “119,” of the Union Pacific.) [As stated on the rear panel of the dust jacket]