| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1 | The History Cooperative

*Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West.* By Claire Strom. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. x + 228 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)
This book deals with the agricultural philosophy and programs of James J. Hill. Hill was the president of the Great Northern Railway from its formation in 1889 to his retirement in 1912. During the last four years of his life, after retiring, he continued to espouse his views on agricultural development.	1
Years before the Great Northern was completed in 1893, from the Twin Cities across North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington to Puget Sound, Hill had developed a vision of agricultural development. Seeing yeoman farmers and rural life as moral goods, he envisioned the growth of small family farms engaged in diversified agriculture. Such a development, he believed, would not only lead to optimal population and production, but would benefit American democracy. Although he emphasized the inherent goodness of rural life in his many speeches and writings, Hill never lost sight of his persistent goal of increasing the haulage and profits of the Great Northern.	. . .

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