History of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Author : Eugene Virgil Smalley
Publisher : New York : Putnam
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Northwest, Pacific
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Author : Eugene Virgil Smalley
Publisher : New York : Putnam
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Northwest, Pacific
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Author : M. John Lubetkin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080614503X
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.
Author : Robert L. Frey
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780870950926
Author : Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Northwest, Pacific
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Author : Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Northwest, Pacific
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Author : Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Northwest, Pacific
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Author : Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Railroad land grants
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Author : Northern Pacific Railway Company
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Railroads
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Author : Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Northwestern States
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