Author details Taft's 'wicked' history in new book
Kathleen Woodford was instrumental in creating the book "TAFT – The Story of the St. Paul Pass Tunnel and America’s Wickedest City: Building the Hiawatha Trail." She will be joined by others of the team for a book signing at the Mineral County Library on Dec. 10. (Gus Chambers photo)
Between 1906 and 1909, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway put track, trestles, and tunnels through the Bitterroot wilderness on the border of Montana and Idaho. This was all part of the Pacific Coast Extension connecting East Coast population centers to China and Japan...
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