Quotation from: The Beginner's American History

Written by: D.H. Montgomery

[Footnote 2: Ranches (ran'chez): farms at the West for raising horses
and cattle, or sheep.]

[Footnote 3: The last spikes (one of gold from California, one of
silver from Nevada, and one made of gold, silver, and iron from
Arizona) were driven just as the clock struck twelve (noon) on May
10th, 1869, at Promontory Point, near Salt Lake, Utah. Every blow
of the hammer was telegraphed throughout the United States.]