''Des rails sur la Prairie'' is a ''
Lucky Luke
''Lucky Luke'' is a Western '' bande dessinée'' series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946. Morris wrote and drew the series single-handedly until 1955, after which he started collaborating with French writer René Goscinny. Their ...
'' comic written by
Goscinny and
Morris
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Places
Australia
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Canada
* Morris Township, Ontario, now part of the municipality of Morris-Turnberry
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. It is the ninth album in the ''s''eries and the first on which Goscinny worked. It is also the first in which Lucky Luke, moving away towards the setting sun at the last box, sings his song "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy ..." The comic was printed by
Dupuis
Éditions Dupuis S.A. () is a Belgian publisher of comic albums and magazines.
Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic albums and magazines. It is originally a French ...
in 1957 and in English by
Cinebook in 2011 as ''Rails on the Prairie''.
Synopsis
Lucky Luke must protect the construction of the railway to the West against the threats of a crooked shareholder of the stagecoaches who sees in the arrival of the train the end of his business.
The story is inspired by the construction of the line from
Omaha to
Sacramento
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, decided in 1862 during the
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...
, but started only in 1865. The
Central Pacific started from Sacramento and headed east, and the
Union Pacific
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started from Omaha and went west, the junction was made at
Promontory Summit
Promontory is an area of high ground in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, 32 mi (51 km) west of Brigham City and 66 mi (106 km) northwest of Salt Lake City. Rising to an elevation of 4,902 feet (1,494 m) above sea ...
in May 1869.
Characters
* Yellow Foot Indians
** Crouching Bison: Chief of the tribe, after the failure of the attack on the train, he expels the men of Black Wilson by threatening them to scalp them if he sees them again.
** Terrible Vulture: Main deputy of Crouching Bison, he leads the attack of the tribe against the train and realizes that "Fire horse too fast".
* The villains
** Harry: Mayor of Nothing City, owner of the saloon and cattle breeder, under the influence of Black Wilson he opposed the railroad; he will change his attitude when the works allow the discovery of an oil deposit.
** Honest Smith: Dead Ox Gulch judge convinces Lucky Luke to defend the railway workers.
** Black Wilson: Owner of stagecoach companies, he does not want the railway to develop.
References
Morris publications in ''Spirou''BDoubliées
External links
Comics by Morris (cartoonist)
Lucky Luke albums
1957 graphic novels
Fiction set in the 1860s
Fiction about rail transport
Works by René Goscinny
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