Le Fil qui chante

The Singing Wire ( original French title: Le fil qui chante ) is a comic strip from the Lucky Luke series, which was drawn by Morris and written by René Goscinny. After the counting of the Ehapa publisher (or at the beginning: Delta Publishing Company Ehapa and Dargaud ) The Singing Wire the 18th volume of the series. Previously, the comic has been posted at Yps as a continuation of history.

Originally, the story was first published in the French magazine Paris Match in 1977, the same year she came out as a band of 15 Dargaud (a total of 46 band ) in France.

For the Lucky- Luke - animated series of this band was filmed.

Content

The U.S. President Abraham Lincoln commissioned Hiram Sibley, president of Western Union with the construction of a telegraph line connecting the two coasts of the United States. For this, the previous director of the western and eastern end of the telegraph, James Gamble and Edward Creighton, commissioned to build their telegraph line to Salt Lake City. Lucky Luke Gamble delivers that message and is then part of the team. Sibley offers a prize of 100,000 dollars for the incoming team there first, and then the assistant Creighton hires a saboteur for Gambles troops, disguised as Indians.

Although Gambles mast storage, car axles, mules and oxen are sabotaged, both teams start on the national holiday of the United States, so on July 4, their work. However, the saboteur continues to drive up to mischief: he is sent to the Indians, where he makes opinion against the telegraph without disguise, even he can - also without cover - the telegraph poles in Austin sawed. When he sabotaged the water resources in the salt deserts of Utah, he finally falls, since it requires more water than the others, because he has to shave off his beard, not to attract attention.

Use the Mormons of Salt Lake City Gambles team reached the first town, but shares the prize with the other team.

Comments

This volume is the last of the Lucky Luke series in which Goscinny was involved. Since the volumes were published but in a different order in Germany, follow after this band many lyrics written by Goscinny volumes.

Content, the story is close to California or death and the railway inspired by the prairie.

The band takes up very many historical personalities and events. So the postal Brin narrowing in the United States is already described on page 3, in excerpts: 1848 letter with the ships of the U.S. Postal Steamship Company and those of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company had been shipped. - In fact, there was the U.S. Mail Steamship Company and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, both founded in 1848. 1856 [ ... ] had introduced 75 ships of the desert from Egypt Edward Fitzgerald Beale. - In fact, Beale had only a year later introduced camels in Tunisia, initially only 25 or 33 pieces. From 1857 to 1861 stagecoaches had taken over the transport. - Stagecoaches as that of the Wells Fargo were frequently encountered in the Wild West. The Pony Express began, as mentioned in the strip in 1860. In this context, Buffalo Bill is called, which was actually Pony Express rider.

Furthermore, there Abraham Lincoln in this volume which also historically existent Hiram Sibley of the Western Union contract to build the telegraph, because he is troubled by the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-1865 ). Also describes correctly that James Gamble and Edward Creighton built the transcontinental telegraph line and thereby provided a kind of contest. In truth, however, Creighton won the race. In Salt Lake City, both teams from Brigham Young received the Judge Stephen J. Field sends in this volume the first two telegraph messages, the historical Shoshonenhäuptling Washakie briefly threatened the telegraph.