John W. Young. USHS collections.
Building Railroads for the Kingdom: The Career of John W. Young, 1867-91 BY M . G U Y B I S H O P
1 HE POST-CIVIL WAR PERIOD in American history, often labeled the Gilded Age, produced numerous enterprising young men who were exMr. Bishop is a doctoral candidate in history at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. He was the Utah State Historical Society Golden Spike railroad research intern in 1976.
