Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study, Volum 7

Forside
History Company, 1892
Biographies of businessmen, miners, ranchers. industrialists, explorers, railroad men, shippers, lumber men, etc., with descriptions of their enterprises. It is a history of the development of the West.
 

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