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Railroad Wars of New York State (Paperback)
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Railroad Wars of New York State (Paperback)
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New York's railroads were born of the cutthroat conflict of rate
wars, bloody strikes and even federal graft. The railroad wars
began as soon as the first line was chartered between Albany and
Schenectady when supporters of the Erie Canal tried to block the
new technology that would render their waterway obsolete. After the
first primitive railroads overcame that hurdle, they began battling
with one another in a series of rate wars to gain market share.
Attracted by the success of the rails, the most powerful and
cunning capitalists in the country--Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay
Gould, Daniel Drew and other robber barons--joined the fray.
Timothy Starr's account of New York's railroad wars steams through
the nineteenth century with stories of rate pools, labor strikes,
stock corners, legislative bribery and treasury plundering the
likes of which the world had never seen.
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