The title here suggests you’ll get a dry history of financier Jay Cooke and his money problems building the Northern Pacific, but this big book is a treat beyond all expectations. Railroad routes across the northern span of the country had to be surveyed, and throughout the 1870s, this proved to be a frustrating and adventurous undertaking. The accounts of surveyors and engineers, and their battles with northern Plains Indians make for great reading, while the detailed histories of various
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