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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... railroad , but by 1840 over half of the railroad tracks in the world had been laid in America , and in that year the country was about to embark on a half - century - long program of rail- road building that was the largest construction ...
... railroad , but by 1840 over half of the railroad tracks in the world had been laid in America , and in that year the country was about to embark on a half - century - long program of rail- road building that was the largest construction ...
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... railroad center of the Midwest and hastened the inevitable coming of the eastern railroads . As the Tribune wrote of Ogden on the occasion of his death : " No one else in the history of the city better understood its prime commercial ...
... railroad center of the Midwest and hastened the inevitable coming of the eastern railroads . As the Tribune wrote of Ogden on the occasion of his death : " No one else in the history of the city better understood its prime commercial ...
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... railroad as the key to the future of the West and , after serving on the state supreme court and in the House of Repre- sentatives , was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1846 on a platform call- ing for the federal government to cede ...
... railroad as the key to the future of the West and , after serving on the state supreme court and in the House of Repre- sentatives , was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1846 on a platform call- ing for the federal government to cede ...
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Preface | 15 |
City of Dreamers and Doers | 24 |
Didnt Expect No Town | 48 |
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