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

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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,

“Completion of the Pacific Railroad” (1869)

1865

1864

“Justice on the Rail” 1872

Pennsy in 1876

“Which Will Win?” 1873

Banking “Panics”

Mary K. Lease “Sockless” Jerry Simpson

William Jennings Bryan

Gold v. Silver

L. Frank Baum

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