Simon Cordery: 2 books
The Iron Road in the Prairie State
The Story of Illinois Railroading
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation’s railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts...
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Raising Cain and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the...