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Posted by Rudrah on August 7, 2009, 4:32:33
The Golden Spike
Now I'm going to tell you a little story that's lost to history. I only know it because my grandfather told me when I was a very small child in the 1950s, because he had worked in the Union Pacific Railroad back in the late 1800s when he first started work as a young man in Topeka Kansas. He belonged to what was called the tumbling club at the local men's gym. That's what they called gymnastics and wrestling in those days. His mentor was a man who worked on the railroad at the very same time the first transcontinental railroad was established in the United States of America. It was May 10, 1869 at promontory summit Utah.
Everybody has seen the pictures of the two gangs one of the Union Pacific side of the tracks in one of the central Pacific side of the tracks which came together and join up to make the first transcontinental railroad.
What you don't see is the hundreds of coolies, "Chinese laborers", and scores of half naked ex-slaves. These two groups of people were the ones who really built the railroad with their sweat of their backs and the broken bones a terrible accidents in a harsh country like Utah even in spring.
My mentor, Oregon city Blackie, was a barrel shaped bear of a man no taller than 5 foot four. He himself had victory in bare knuckle boxing matches against men two and three times the size, fights that brutally went on some
But the longest fight he saw was between Wonton Suzy, of burly big busted Chinese laundry lady, and Maribeth McKenzie, a prostitute out of New Orleans didn't come up of the railroad gang literally traveling across the country on her back.
At exactly 12:47 PM the last iron spike was driven fully completed the line.
Within 45 minutes every living man woman and child within 6 miles of that Spike were roaring drunk and fighting and screwing in the dirt with the sunup over their head if they didn't have a roof to hide their shame from the sky.
Someone who thought again about these things had cleared out one cattle pen big enough for about 100 heard a cattle, bought 50 cases of French wine, and invited everybody to come over and lay bets with gold or folding money on what was to be the best girl fight anybody had ever seen.
It was no weapons and no rules and killing is okay if the crowd seems to want to see a killing at the end of the fight.
Now I tell you those women have been prepared with a pot of nasty railroad company coffee and a large medicine bottle of nasty homebrew hard liquor. They just will down stand in their sweat and stripped to the waste. They held her arms out and wiggle their fingers and sneered each other like two b###h mountain lions meet each other on a ridge.
I won't describe the fight must I rise up feelings in you that have no part in clean Christian to trouble a clean Christian mind.
I just wanted to let someone know some like this happened and to pick up a Bible and please think on their sins!
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