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A Nation of Rails How Railroads Changed America

A Nation of Rails How Railroads Changed America. TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009. Peter Cooper’s “Tom Thumb” Outruns a Horse (1830). New York Central RR 1850s. Railroad Mileage, 1869-1876. “Completion of the Pacific Railroad” (1869). 1865. 1864. “Justice on the Rail” 1872.

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A Nation of Rails How Railroads Changed America

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

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

  3. New York Central RR 1850s

  4. Railroad Mileage, 1869-1876

  5. “Completion of the Pacific Railroad” (1869)

  6. 1865

  7. 1864

  8. “Justice on the Rail” 1872

  9. Pennsy in 1876

  10. “Which Will Win?” 1873

  11. Banking “Panics”

  12. “Sockless” Jerry Simpson Mary K. Lease

  13. William Jennings Bryan

  14. Gold v. Silver

  15. L. Frank Baum

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