# James J.Hill and the Opening of the Northwest, Vol. 1

By **Albro Martin**

- ISBN-13: 9780195020700
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 690
- Published: 1 Jan 1977
- Categories: History, Biography, Great Northern Railway (U.S.), Businesspeople, Businessmen, Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916, Railroads, Businesspeople, biography, Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916

## About this book

James J. Hill (1838-1916), the Empire Builder, created a vast railroad network across the northwestern United States. In this splendid biography, Martin, the first researcher to have access to Hill's voluminous correspondence, richly portrays a man of many parts: an entrepreneur, a family man, a collector of notable Fr

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