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Frederick Billings : a life

Author: Robin W Winks
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Edition/Format:  Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The nineteenth century was the golden age of enterprise in the United States. A small group of rich and powerful men changed the way we do business, and forever altered the American landscape by criss-crossing the country with railway lines. Although less well known than the great "robber barons", Frederick Billings was one of the extraordinary men of his era, combining a shrewd business sense with a love of nature.  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biographies
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Winks, Robin W.
Frederick Billings.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1991
(OCoLC)610184674
Named Person: Frederick Billings; Frederick Billings; Frederick Billings
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robin W Winks
ISBN: 0195068149 9780195068146
OCLC Number: 22735066
Description: x, 398 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Woodstock is where the sheriff lives --
The University makes all the difference --
First steps into the world --
Laura --
No small affair --
Founding a law firm: HPB --
A man of property --
The Montgomery Block --
Justice in the instant city --
The University of California is born --
The land problem --
The best chance --
"Saving California for the Union" --
Arms purchaser --
Julia --
At a crisis --
"Home again and home again" --
Buying into railroads --
"A splendid adventure": the Northern Pacific --
"A great triumph": reorganization --
"My life work was done": president --
Villard and the blind pool --
The last spike --
Reform republican --
Commerce and conservation --
Man and nature --
The best season to journey.
Responsibility: Robin W. Winks.
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The nineteenth century was the golden age of enterprise in the United States. A small group of rich and powerful men changed the way we do business, and forever altered the American landscape by criss-crossing the country with railway lines. Although less well known than the great "robber barons", Frederick Billings was one of the extraordinary men of his era, combining a shrewd business sense with a love of nature. Born in Vermont in 1823, Billings was one of the early "forty-niners," making his fortune during the gold rush, becoming the first person to practice law in California, and the state's first Attorney General. He was also a leading conservationist- he helped establish Yosemite National Park, and initiated the reforestation of Vermont. As a wealthy railroad entrepreneur, he invested in the first northern transcontinental line, the Northern Pacific, of which he was later president. In this definitive biography of Frederick Billings, Robin Winks provides the first full-length study of this nineteenth-century giant. -- from Book Jacket

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