Iron Millionaire : Life of Charlemagne Tower / Hal Bridges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bridges, Hal, Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tower, Charlemagne, 1809-1889.

Tower, Charlemagne.

Industrialists--United States--Biography.

Industrialists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Reprint 2016.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Introduction

Contents

Illustrations

1. The Emperor2 Namesake

2. Country Boy at Harvard

3. Learning the Law

4. In the Steps of the Giants

5. A Man and His Family

6. Civil War

7. Millions in Coal Lands

8. Northern Pacific

9. C. Tower, Educator

10. "Occupations for My Mind"

11. Mesabi

12. Vermilion

13. Battle of the Lawmakers

14. "My Dear Father

"

15. Mining in the Wilderness

16. July 31, 1884

17. Money Hunt

18. Troubles at the Top

19. "We Cannot Both Rule"

20. Six Million, or Else

21. End of Tenure

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

ISBN:

1-5128-1476-8

OCLC:

979747908