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JAY COOKE'S GAMBLE: THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD, THE SIOUX, AND THE PANIC OF 1873
Published by University of Oklahoma Press. Circa. 2006
Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper. How Jay Coooke's decision to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle, reignited the war with the Sioux, rescued Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, set off a wave of Northern European immigration, pushed frontier settlement 400 miles westeward, halted western Canada's drift into the U.S. orbit, triggered the Panic of 1873, and spurred J.P. Morgan's rise. Blue cloth spine with gilt title, light blue cloth boards. B/w illustrations.
2nd printing.
ISBN: 0806137401
Stock no. 1812296
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- HISTORY
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- NATIVE AMERICAN
- CIVIL WAR
- CIVIL WAR (AMERICAN)
- RAILWAYS
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