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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... lived for a brief but turbulent moment in the years just after Gurdon Hubbard arrived in 1818 . Mark Beaubien was the younger brother of one of Chicago's earliest fur traders , Jean Baptiste Beaubien , who lived with his large , part ...
... lived for a brief but turbulent moment in the years just after Gurdon Hubbard arrived in 1818 . Mark Beaubien was the younger brother of one of Chicago's earliest fur traders , Jean Baptiste Beaubien , who lived with his large , part ...
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... lived in or near the business core , people of all economic classes , ethnic backgrounds , and occupations . Spectacularly rich grain barons resided within spitting distance of miserably paid Irish mill hands in neighborhoods that ...
... lived in or near the business core , people of all economic classes , ethnic backgrounds , and occupations . Spectacularly rich grain barons resided within spitting distance of miserably paid Irish mill hands in neighborhoods that ...
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... lived where they could walk to work ; more prosperous workers lived a short streetcar ride from foundries and factories ; the middle class lived farther out along the trolley and cable lines ; and the rich , with the exception of those ...
... lived where they could walk to work ; more prosperous workers lived a short streetcar ride from foundries and factories ; the middle class lived farther out along the trolley and cable lines ; and the rich , with the exception of those ...
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Preface | 15 |
City of Dreamers and Doers | 24 |
Didnt Expect No Town | 48 |
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