Sökt på: M. John Lubetkin
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Jay Cooke's Gamble
In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to …
Before Custer
Hoping to complete its transcontinental route, the Northern Pacific Railroad set out in 1872 to survey the Yellowstone Valley. An emissary from the Lakota chief Sitting Bull had …
Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey
Progress on the nation’s second transcontinental railroad slowed in 1873. The Northern Pacific’s proposed middle—the 250 miles between present Billings and Glendive, Montana—had …
A Million Dollars an Ounce
As Hitler's empire crumbles in 1945, an American paratrooper seizes ten million dollars in rare stamps looted by Nazi's during the war. However, once back in New York he soon …
Road to War
By 1870, only one group of American Indians in the 300,000 square miles of the Dakota and Montana Territories still held firm against being placed on reservations: a few thousand …