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The northern pacific railroad the sioux and the panic of 1873 has 2 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. His gamble to purchase the northern pacific railroad which would eventually run from salem ore on puget sound to duluth minn on lake superior proved to be a catastrophic failure that brought down cookes banking house jay cooke co and ushered in the panic of 1873. Macdonald to lose his office in the 1873 election. Cookes shares in the northern pacific railway were purchased for pennies on the dollar by george stephen and donald smith who then finished building the canadian pacific railway.
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Both the books preface and the accompanying publishers brochure explain how lubetkin a retired cable television executive came to write jay cookes gamble and it is a story that gives hope to cynical college professors. Read 5 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Custer and the 1873 yellowstone survey. Jay cookes northern pacific railroad touched off a sioux war that caused the panic of 1873.
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