Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Miscellaneous Documents
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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River of History
Author: John O. AnfinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Formations (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Pride of the Inland Seas
Author: Bill BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Bill Beck started the Lakeside Writers Group following careers as a newspaper reporter.
Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War
Author: Ellis Paxson OberholtzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
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 great American land bubble
Author: Aaron Morton SakolskiPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610162986
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Türk tütünleri meǧmūʻasi
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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