James J. Hill
Subtitle: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies , Vol 12)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780806128603
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: historical; Trains & railways: general interest; United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century; Business; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; North America; Historical - U.S.; Historical - General
First sentence: PERHAPS no other generation in all of American history played so fascinating or central a role in national development as the one that, born in the 1830s and 1840s, came to maturity in the Civil War crisis of 1857-67.