Harvey Wasserman's History of the United StatesHarper & Row, 1975 - 262 pages |
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... Pacific Railway Act of 1862 gave the promoters of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Rail- ways five square miles of land for every mile of track they would lay across the west . Two years later , after an amazing round of bribery ...
... Pacific Railway Act of 1862 gave the promoters of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Rail- ways five square miles of land for every mile of track they would lay across the west . Two years later , after an amazing round of bribery ...
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... Pacific ring - filled every corner of American life . THE OCTOPUS On the West coast the Central Pacific Ring of Leland Stanford , Collis Huntington , Mark Hopkins , and Charles Crocker domi- nated the economic life of California through ...
... Pacific ring - filled every corner of American life . THE OCTOPUS On the West coast the Central Pacific Ring of Leland Stanford , Collis Huntington , Mark Hopkins , and Charles Crocker domi- nated the economic life of California through ...
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Harvey Wasserman. Pacific National City Bank U.S. Rubber Willow Roberts and Peter Irons. Southern Pacific Western Union Southern Pacific International Mercantile Marine Un ion Union Pacific Fn : Morgan house held 341 directorships in 112 ...
Harvey Wasserman. Pacific National City Bank U.S. Rubber Willow Roberts and Peter Irons. Southern Pacific Western Union Southern Pacific International Mercantile Marine Un ion Union Pacific Fn : Morgan house held 341 directorships in 112 ...
Contents
The Robber Barons | 3 |
The People | 52 |
The Revolt of the Farmers | 61 |
Copyright | |
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