Author: Edwin Ferry JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwestern States
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Railroad to the Pacific, Northern Route
Author: Edwin Ferry JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwestern States
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Guidebook of the Western United States
Author: Joseph Silas DillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Steam & Cinders
Author: Axel LorenzsonnPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020470X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Based on the author’s extensive research into the early history of Wisconsin’s rails, Steam and Cinders chronicles the boom and bust of the first railroads in the state, from the charters of the 1830s to the farm mortgages of the 1850s and consolidation of the railroads on the eve of the Civil War. Featuring more than 75 period photographs, historic maps, and drawings, Steam and Cinders preserves the legacy of early Wisconsin railroading for railroad buffs and armchair historians alike.
The Northern Pacific Land Grants
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Northern Pacific Railroad Land GrantsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Norwich University
Author: Jay Cooke's Gamble
Author: M. John LubetkinPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080614503X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873. Staking his reputation and wealth on the Northern Pacific, Cooke was soon whipsawed by the railroad’s mismanagement, questionable contracts, and construction problems. Financier J. P. Morgan undermined him, and the Crédit Mobilier scandal ended congressional support. When railroad surveyors and army escorts ignored Sioux chief Sitting Bull’s warning not to enter the Yellowstone Valley, Indian attacks—combined with alcoholic commanders—led to embarrassing setbacks on the field, in the nation’s press, and among investors. Lubetkin’s suspenseful narrative describes events played out from Wall Street to the Yellowstone and vividly portrays the soldiers, engineers, businessmen, politicians, and Native Americans who tried to build or block the Northern Pacific.
The Northern Pacific Land Grants
Author: United States. Congress. Joint committee on investigation of the North Pacific railroad land grantsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author: Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society
Author: Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society
Author: American Geographical and Statistical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description