Sublime

Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.

The white man behind it was Elihu Embree, an iron manufacturer and former slave owner who had evolved, at age thirty, into an abolitionist. Elihu mailed his newspapers to Southern politicians, intent on persuading them to end the horrors of slavery.

The “Q” was truly one of America’s best and most-profitable roads. Well capitalized, well constructed, and well managed by two of the giant figures of American railroading, John Murray Forbes and Charles Perkins, along with their New England associates, it served a densely populated and fertile agrarian hinterland stretching across Illinois and

Susan Cornelia Clarke Warren,

When this theft is committed, Billy is 16 years old. After he escapes, he leaves his home in Silver City, never to return. Any reluctance to leave behind his stepfather and older brother Joseph is likely reduced by the earlier death of his mother of “an affection of the lungs” on September 16, 1874.[52] Another frequent guest who will deal with

The epic battle of American railroad history began in 1901 and centered on control of the strategic Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad (the “Q”). Once Hill and Morgan had consolidated the NP with the GN under Hill’s effective tutelage, it made more sense than ever to forge a connecting link between the Twin Cities–Duluth termini of the two