City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of AmericaSimon & Schuster, 1996 - 704 من الصفحات Thoroughly researched and magnificently written, City of the Century captures all the drama of Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to a metropolis that by 1890 rivaled New York City. "Brims with life, with people, surprises, and with stories--and stories within stories--all worth telling."--David McCullough, author of Truman. of photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... west by dense forests . They were in the part of it known today as the Tallgrass Prairie , extending , roughly , from western Indiana to eastern Okla- homa , where farther west the grass is less continuous and not as high . It was a ...
... west by dense forests . They were in the part of it known today as the Tallgrass Prairie , extending , roughly , from western Indiana to eastern Okla- homa , where farther west the grass is less continuous and not as high . It was a ...
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... west of the city , all the way to the Missis- sippi and up into Wisconsin . Eventually , he incorporated it into a vast 860 - mile system , the Chicago and North Western Railway , Chicago's " great wheat feeder . " By this time , Ogden ...
... west of the city , all the way to the Missis- sippi and up into Wisconsin . Eventually , he incorporated it into a vast 860 - mile system , the Chicago and North Western Railway , Chicago's " great wheat feeder . " By this time , Ogden ...
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... ( West Chicago ) Wheaton Barrington Lake Forest Winnetka CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN Palatine Wilmette Dey Plaines Evanston Park Ridge Rogers Park Norwood Lake View Elmhurst River Forest Oak Park CHICAGOA NORTH WESTERN Austin Cicero Riverside ...
... ( West Chicago ) Wheaton Barrington Lake Forest Winnetka CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN Palatine Wilmette Dey Plaines Evanston Park Ridge Rogers Park Norwood Lake View Elmhurst River Forest Oak Park CHICAGOA NORTH WESTERN Austin Cicero Riverside ...
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Preface | 15 |
City of Dreamers and Doers | 24 |
Didnt Expect No Town | 48 |
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