Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Biography of William B. Ogden
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| ISBN: | 9781441645012
1441645012
9780809386802
0809386801
9780809329175
0809329174
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | William Butler Ogden was a pioneer railroad magnate, one of the earliest founders and developers of the city of Chicago, and an important influence on U.S. westward expansion. His career as a businessman stretched from the streets of Chicago to the wilds of the Wisconsin lumber forests, from the iron mines of Pennsylvania to the financial capitals in New York and beyond. Jack Harpster's The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago: A Biography of William B. Ogden is the first biography of one of the most notable figures in nineteenth-century America. Harpster.
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| Other form: | Print version: Harpster, Jack, 1937- Railroad tycoon who built Chicago. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2009 9780809329175
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