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The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington
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| #2879781 in Books | University Press of Colorado | 1999-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x1.10 x5.90l,1.57 | File type: PDF | 444 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Railroading's Heyday|By Michael E. Fitzgerald|Talk about most unlikely to succeed! Collis Huntington was born in Harwinton, Connecticut in 1821 and became an itinerant peddler, primarily throughout the South. But he saved sufficient capital to become a successful hardware merchant in Oneonta, New York. When gold was discovered in California he headed west, not to search for gol||
"David Lavender's biography probably will remain the standard account of Collis Potter Huntington for some decades to come."| —Montana Magazine
The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1,500 into America's first continental railroad. It is an almost unbelievable story of a high dream of fortune realized through highhanded practices-an adventure which left the national treasury poorer by millions of swindled dollars, and Ameri...
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