Tells how the building of the Northern Pacific Railroad reignited war with the Sioux, created Yellowstone Park, spurred Northern European immigration, pushed fr

In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, M

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