The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington

by David Lavender

The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1,500 into America's first continental railroad. It is an almost unbelievable story of a high dream of fortune realized through highhanded practices-an adventure which left the national treasury poorer by millions of swindled dollars,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870814761
• ISBN13: 9780870814761
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up