Cyrus K. Holliday founded the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1859, and after the Santa Fe bought the Atlantic and Pacific's Western Division in 1897 and moved its division headquarters from Gallup to Winslow, the resulting influx of infrastructure and employees transformed Winslow from a railroad boomtown into a major city on the principal rail line to the West Coast. Railroading dominated local life through the first half of the 20th century, with large numbers of mechanics, machinists, boilermakers, conductors, engineers, firemen, and brakemen keeping trains moving, while passenger service reached peak years when fourteen Santa Fe passenger trains passed through Winslow daily. Beginning in 1876, Fred Harvey opened dining houses along the Santa Fe line, and in 1887 he opened Winslow's first Harvey House, where Harvey Girl waitresses from the East Coast and Midwest worked under strict rules and many later married local men and settled in town. After 1900, the Santa Fe and Fred Harvey promoted travel to the Southwest through grand hotels, sales of Native American arts and crafts, and Harveycar Indian Detours, and in 1930 La Posada opened north of the tracks as Fred Harvey's last grand hotel and architect Mary Colter's masterpiece, designed as the grand hacienda of a wealthy Spanish don and surrounded by extensive grounds. The company-sponsored Santa Fe Indian Band, made up of Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna employees and family members, performed widely from La Posada and beyond, while Laguna families lived in converted boxcars on Santa Fe property after the railroad employed Laguna men in exchange for crossing their Pueblo lands in New Mexico.