| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Book Review

The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman. By Maury Klein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi + 521 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $34.95.)

J. P. Morgan made his mark in banking, John D. Rockefeller in oil, Andrew Carnegie in steel, and E. H. Harriman in railroads--the country's first big business. A successful and respected Wall Street broker, Harriman burst fully onto the railroad scene during the late 1890s, when he gained control of Union Pacific. A few years later, Union Pacific secured control of the Southern Pacific, the western leg of the Overland Route, and the largest transportation enterprise in the country at that time. The Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific, were dominant in a huge area, and taking over the Southern Pacific, Harriman exulted: "We have bought not only a railroad, but an empire." . . .

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