The big four: the story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the building of the Central Pacific |
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| Title | The big four: the story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the building of the Central Pacific |
| Author | Oscar Lewis |
| Publisher | A.A. Knopf, 1938 |
| Length | 418 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Business Capitalists and financiers Central Pacific railroad History / General History / United States / 19th Century |
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