Title: The Life of James J. Hill, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Publisher: Forgotten Books Apr 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Language: English
ISBN 10: 033190652X
ISBN 13: 9780331906523
Binding: Buch
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 29 millimeters depth
Weight: 1448 grams

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From frontier beginnings to a railway empire: the early life that shaped a national figure.

This volume traces James J. Hill’s roots in a sturdy, late‑19th‑century Canadian‑American milieu. It begins with his family history, the Hardin of Rockwood, Ontario, and the working days that forged character, resolve, and a vast reserve of practical knowledge.

Readers meet the Hill and Dunbar families, learn how simple farm life and close community shaped values, and see the early forces that would drive one man to leadership in roads, rivers, and the economy at large. The narrative moves through a world of log houses, limited schooling, and the quiet struggle to transform land and labor into opportunity.

Discover the environment that formed the man who would change transportation and finance.
See how family, place, and era influence ambition and shaping of a career.
Follow the groundwork laid before the railroads and wealth defined a nation.
Understand the context of later business and monetary decisions that affected the era.

Ideal for readers of railroad history, economic biography, and the broader story of American expansion in the late 1800s.

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