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Author | : M. John Lubetkin |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2014-04-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806182059 |
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.
Author | : M. John Lubetkin |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2014-04-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080614503X |
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.
Author | : Edwin M. Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Bankruptcy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jay Cooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 189? |
Genre | : Capitalists and financiers |
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Typescript (carbon copy) of Cooke's own memoir of childhood, family, and his business experience until about 1861. The rest of the work, written from dictation by Cooke's granddaughter, Elizabeth C. Butler, deals mainly with Civil War finance and the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Author | : Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jay Cooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Capitalists and financiers |
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Author | : Henrietta Melia Larson |
Publisher | : Harvard Studies in Business History |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
No detailed description available for "Jay Cooke, Private Banker".
Author | : Democratic National Committee (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Campaign literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert J. Cooke |
Publisher | : DRAM Tree Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780981460345 |
When America went to war with itself, Wilmington was North Carolina's largest city. From the imposing grandeur of the Bellamy Mansion that overlooked a busy harbor, to the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, which at the time boasted the longest rail line in the world, the port city was a bustling example of Southern industry. But when conflict came, the city became a pivotal player in the Confederate government's war efforts. Paddy's Hollow boasted more than thirty saloons, while murders happened with alarming frequency. Prostitutes offered their services to the thousands of soldiers passing through town, while civilian and military authorities tried to keep a lid on it all. Local police were woefully inadequate to keep the peace against rioting troops who had witnessed the horrors of places like Chickamauga and Gettysburg. Doctors performed heroically to save lives, fighting disease, battlefield disfigurements, and death with too little of every kind of medicine and supplies. Civilians, railroads, and military officials all competed for too few resources, while offshore the Union blockade of what became the last open port of the Confederacy grew tighter with each passing day. Robert J. Cooke's ten years of research has resulted in a picture of Wilmington that more closely resembles the Wild West's Dodge City than it does some genteel antebellum city.
Author | : Jay Cooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Gibraltar |
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