Author: State Historical and Natural History Society of ColoradoPublisher:
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
History of Colorado
Author: State Historical and Natural History Society of ColoradoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
History of Denver
Author: Jerome Constant SmileyPublisher:
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Category : Denver (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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History of the Great American Fortunes (Volume Three)
Author: Gustavus MyersPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9781410203427
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Originally published in 1910, a primary source for the business and development of American power in the nineteenth century. As Myers describes in his preface, it was the fashion in the early twentieth century to write of the multi-millionaires in an unfavorable light, as if they were all robber barons and had no social conscience. In his history he was attempting to be more realistic in his perspective. Volume one tells of the colonization of America and the large land grants and the great land fortunes. Volumes two and three cover the great fortunes from railroads, with extensive material on J. P. Morgan in relation to that category. Gustavus Myers (1872-1942) was an American historian who worked on a number of newspapers and magazines in New York City, joined the Populist party and the Social Reform Club, and was a member (1907-12) of the Socialist party. Such books as The History of Tammany Hall (1901), History of the Great American Fortunes (1910), and History of the Supreme Court of the United States (1912) were detailed, realistic exposes through which Myers made his reputation in the muckraking era of American literature.
Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities
Author: Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Analyses of the Railroad Corporations Whose Bonds are a Legal Investment for Massachusetts Savings Banks
Author: Old Colony Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Commercial and Financial Chronicle Bankers Gazette, Commercial Times, Railway Monitor and Insurance Journal
Author: Gulf To Rockies
Author: Richard C. OvertonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477306242
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Gulf to Rockies is a chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders of the nineteenth century. Throughout the 1860s the mineral treasures of Colorado were virtually inaccessible for lack of railroads. Even after a hectic decade of building in the 1870s, the state faced a new sort of isolation: every railroad crossing her borders was controlled by the Union Pacific or the Santa Fe. As a result, the Rocky Mountain region could not hope to compete with the Midwest for the business of the Atlantic seaboard. To remedy this situation, John Evans, former governor of Colorado, organized in 1881 a railroad to run southward from Denver as the first link in a cheap rail-water route via the Gulf of Mexico to the East. Meanwhile ambitious Fort Worth citizens had incorporated the Fort Worth and Denver City in 1873. Not a rail was laid on either road, however, until General Grenville M. Dodge, famed builder of the Union Pacific and the Texas Pacific, took up the Texas project and joined forces with Evans to create the Gulf-to-Rockies route. It took seven years for these men and their associates to mobilize funds and complete the Fort Worth–Denver line, and another decade to establish the system’s independence and solve its financial problems in the face of drought, depression, and intense competition. Gulf to Rockies was written under special agreements with Northwestern University and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, whereby the university relieved Mr. Overton of a part of his duties in order that he might have time for research and writing and the railroad undertook to bear the cost of the research. The Burlington also permitted him free access to all company records and granted him unrestricted freedom to publish his findings.
Moodys Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities. Government, State and Municipal Supplement
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Category : Government securities
Languages : en
Pages : 2474
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