Author: Paul De Kruif
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816652627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
An account of the discovery and development of the great iron deposits of the Mesabi Range describes how the seven Merritt brothers found the iron ore in 1890, only to lose control of the resource and the wealth that it would bring to powerful industrialist John D. Rockefeller. Reprint.