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A Nation of Rails How Railroads Changed America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009.

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1 A Nation of Rails How Railroads Changed America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009

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4 Peter Cooper’s “Tom Thumb” Outruns a Horse (1830)

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7 New York Central RR 1850s

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11 Railroad Mileage, 1869-1876

12 “Completion of the Pacific Railroad” (1869)

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14 1865

15 1864

16 “Justice on the Rail” 1872

17 Pennsy in 1876

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20 “Which Will Win?” 1873

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24 Banking “Panics”

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26 Mary K. Lease “Sockless” Jerry Simpson

27 William Jennings Bryan

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29 Gold v. Silver

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31 L. Frank Baum

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