M John Lubetkin: 1 book
Jay Cooke's Gamble
The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
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 tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity,...
