" l James Buchanan, Big Wheel of the Railroads BY OLIVER S. SPROUT While much has been written concerning the early development of our railroads; two local men appear as having been slighted in the roles they filled as railroad builders. Their advancement of land transport techniques would have

the Harper,s article. The most casual inquiry into the facts would reveal the inaccuracies in it. Ann,s father was very much alive in 1819, and Buchanan did not break his arm that year, to mention only two. Party newspapers hostile to Buchanan,s election twisted this romanticized Harper'sstory into a

reported in some of the newspapers. Buck went into private conference with about half a dozen visitors daily. Young John Appleton of Maine, whom Buchanan planned to install as the editor of an administration newspaper in Washington, lived there for a time to the great distress of John Forney, who wanted

same authority on newspaper history said that Forney's Press in Philadelphia was "one of the most influential newspapers during the Civil War period." 5 3 Letters by John W. Forney in Robert Lincoln Collection (Library of Congress) indicate this in several instances. 4 History of American Journalism