A Nation of Rails How Railroads Changed America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009

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A Nation of RailsHow Railroads Changed America

TAH Osceola County19 September 2009

Peter Cooper’s “Tom Thumb” Outruns a Horse (1830)

Railroad Mileage, 1869-1876

“Completion of the Pacific Railroad” (1869)

1865

Pennsy in 1876

“Which Will Win?”

1873

Banking “Panics”

Mary K. Lease

“Sockless” Jerry Simpson

Gold v. Silver

L. Frank Baum