I love the work you do, Jim, but the “wedding of the rails” happened at Promontory SUMMIT, Utah, not Point! Lots of books have it wrong. (Go to the National Park site: https://www.nps.gov/gosp/index.htm and look for Golden Spike.) And don’t miss the fantastic postage stamps issued on the 10th of May to commemorate it!
But what happened to the other artist? Got too old, didn’t like it anymore, died, fired? What? I’d like to know a little more. Why were we left hanging with the story? One day it looks like Oop will save Ooola from the tiger and the next day the whole story has changed and there’s new art that doesn’t even pretend to look like the old art! Can’t we at least have some sort of explanation?
Oh please don’t let Cosmo trade in his pink DeSoto!