James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest

• By: Albro Martin
• Format: Paper, xxvi, 676 pp., 1991, 50 b&w photos, index
• Publisher: MHS Press
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• ISBN 0-87351-261-8

James J. Hill (1838-1916), the Empire Builder, created a vast railroad network across the northwestern United States. In this splendid biography, Martin, the first researcher to have access to Hill's voluminous correspondence, richly portrays a man of many parts: an entrepreneur, a family man, a collector of notable French paintings, a promoter of scientific agriculture, and a booster for the Northwest.

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Praise for James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest:

"Martin's book is exceptionally well written and . . . one of the best biographies of a nineteenth-century business leader ever written."--American Historical Review