James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest

Oxford University Press, 1976-10-28. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Hardcover with DJ, First Edition 1976 Oxford University Press 676 pages. Very Good+, in a Good DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to black cloth boards with gilt spine titles - corners sharp. Moderate shelf/edge wear, several closed tears and several chips to original clipped DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railroad executive. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest. Because of the size of this region and the economic dominance exerted by the Hill lines, Hill became known during his lifetime as "The Empire Builder". The Great Northern railroad was the only successfully built privately funded transcontinental railroad in U.S. history. No federal subsidies were used during its construction, unlike all other transcontinental railroads.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 French paintings, a promoter of scientific agriculture, and a booster for the Northwest. Handsome vintage First Edition in a respectable original DJ. LOC SSS-01