Cornelius Cole, California Pioneer and United States Senator
Cornelius Cole, California Pioneer and United States Senator

Author: Catherine Coffin Phillips

Publisher:

Published: 1929

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13:

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Cornelius Cole was born in 1822 in New York. His parents were David Cole (1788-1865) and Rachel Townsend (1790-1863). He became a lawyer, moved to California in 1849 during the Gold Rush and set up a law practice in San Francisco. He married Olive Colegrove (1833-1918) in 1852 and they had nine children. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1864. He died in 1922.

The Inside Man
The Inside Man

Author: Salvador A. Ramirez

Publisher: Salvador A. Ramirez

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 1412

ISBN-13: 0615283152

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The Inside Man is the culmination of more than seventeen years of groundbreaking, meticulous, and exhaustive research into the life of this least known or understood of the "Big Five" who built the western end of the first transcontinental railroad. Drawn from original sources most of which have hitherto been inaccessible or ignored by previous chroniclers-thousands of pages of handwritten letters, telegrams, accounts from scores of newspapers archived around the country, including biographical and historical works-are brought to bear in this monumental account. More than the biography of one individual, this masterful account weaves within the narrative the many forces and competing issues faced by Mark Hopkins and his associates as well as the culture and mores of late nineteenth century California, and their very personal struggles and conflicts.

Senators of the United States
Senators of the United States

Author: Diane B. Boyle

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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S. Doc. 103-34. Compiled by Jo Anne McCormick Quatannens, Diane B. Boyle, editorial assistant, prepared under the direction of Kelly D. Johnston, Secretary of the Senate. Lists scholarly works that profile the lives and legislative service of senators and their autobiographies and other published works.

The Filth of Progress
The Filth of Progress

Author: Ryan Dearinger

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2015-10-30

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0520960378

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The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans—the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens—whose labor created the West’s infrastructure and turned the nation’s dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.