U.S. Telegraph

A Pony Express rider, bringing mail from far away, greets the workers who are constructing the last sections of the telegraph line that will create the first high-speed connection between California and the rest of the United States: "The Transcontinental Telegraph" (or "U.S. Telegraph").

This gigantic project, launched September 20, 1860 by the Western Union Telegraph Company will revolutionize communications and will lead to considerable development of towns in the central and western United States. Construction began in Salt Lake City, Utah, and moved simultaneously eastward and westward.

The Pony Express, however, continued to cover the missing links during the construction, until the telegraph's inauguration on Octover 24, 1861. This original line was in th operation until May of 1869, when the transcontinental railway was completed, at which point the telegraph lines were relocated to follow its route. This also put a definiteve end to the Pony Express, with the mail being delivered by train, and urgent information by electric telegraph.

-description from the rulebook

U.S. Telegraph, first released as Attika, is set in the United States of the 19th century when the first transcontinental telegraph was built. Each player develops their own city to participate in the telegraph construction, trying to take the choicest (i.e., least expensive) plots of land for themselves.