Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873

By M. John Lubetkin

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806137401
• ISBN13: 9780806137407
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"