James J Hill & Opening of Northwest

John Gillett and Augusta Smith Oglesby Professor of American Heritage Emeritus Albro Martin
Minnesota Historical Society Press
9780873512619
0-87351-261-8

James J. Hill (1838-1916), the Empire Builder, created a vast railroad network across the northwestern United States. In this splendid biography, Martin, the first researcher to have access to Hill's voluminous.

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correspondence, richly portrays a man of many parts: an entrepreneur, a family man, a collector of notable French paintings, a promoter of scientific agriculture, and a booster for the Northwest.