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1 online resource (xii, 342 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index. |
| Summary |
Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country's largest railroad system a network of track reaching from the Atlantic to Salt Lake City and from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. On the eve of the Great Depression they were close to controlling the country's first coast-to-coast rail system a goal that still eludes us. They created the model upper-class suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, with its unique rapid tr. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936.
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Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936. |
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Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935.
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Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935. |
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Businessmen -- Ohio -- Biography.
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Businessmen. |
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Ohio. |
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Biographies.
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Real estate development -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History.
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Real estate development. |
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Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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History. |
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Railroads -- Ohio -- History.
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Railroads. |
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Cleveland (Ohio) -- History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harwood, Herbert H. Invisible giants. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003 0253341639 (DLC) 2002004355 (OCoLC)49383930 |
| ISBN |
0253110602 (electronic book) |
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9780253110602 (electronic book) |
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1282072420 |
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9781282072428 |
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