Jay Cooke's Gamble The Northern Pacific Railroad, The Sioux & the Panic of 1873 2005 University of Oklahoma Press Old West History Books

This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover with dust jacket. 2005 University of Oklahoma Press. This copy is still crisp and clean inside and out. The pages are crisp and clean inside. The binding is tight and straight. Dusty blue hardcover boards under jacket feature navy blue cloth quarter trim w gold lettering along the spine. The hardcover boards are also near fine with barely a hint of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is clean and shiny with only a hint of shelf wear Super octavo book size or 7" x 11" with 380 pages including index.

Jay Cooke's Gamble by M. John Lubetkin is subtitled The Norther Pacific Railroad, The Sioux, and the Panic of 1873. Cooke was the country's leading banker at the time and often referred to as "Financier of the Civil War". At age 48 he was bored and decided to take on a challenge; finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Minnesota to Seattle. In this book the author tells how Cooke's gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement 400 miles forward, triggered the Panic of 1873 and spurred J.P. Morgan's rise.
But, Cooke failed to realize he could not control Congress, and was unprepared for the financial and political coalition that he would confront. Most of all, he underestimated Sitting Bull and Cheyenne followers. Morgan undermined him at every turn. The army and surveyors ignored Sitting Bull's warnings. President Grant had to send Custer to battle and soon Custer found himself in combat with Crazy Horse. The author narrative describes events from Wall Street to Yellowstone, Congress to the frontier and vividly portrays all the actors.

Thank you for visiting Bobbis Bookstore !!