continue the c-span cities tour with the story of wilmette -- william jackson palmer who helped bring railroads to colorado.

continue the c-span cities tour with the story of wilmette -- william jackson palmer who helped bring railroads to colorado. ♪ palmer saw possibilities, and i think it might be the mountains that he fell in love with, and it is right up against pike's peak and this wonderful place, that what he saw as the economic driver was the climate and the mountains, and the fact that people's -- people like himself from the atlantic seaboard would be drawn here, so here for a few weeks or a month or to come and visit and decide to stay, that they would be drawn by the helpful climate and in natural beauty, so he saw this place potential. he built colorado springs along the rail line, and then the rail line connected further south, and this town in particular to be his home, and he always saw it as an anecdote, if you will, to eastern industrialization. for this young man who grew up in the second largest city in the entire country, he looked to the west, and we have this vast, open expanse of land, seemingly limitless, and he envisioned a place here where people could come and live warts stay an