附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the varieties of railroad antagonism -- "What is this railroad to do for us?" -- "California netted with iron tracks" -- A volcano at any moment: the Pullman strike in California -- The Los Angeles "Free harbor fight" -- Pens as swords: fiction, nonfiction, and railroad opposition -- "Let us agitate and agitate": progressives and the railroad -- Epilogue: building an octopus.
