The Pennsylvania Railroad at Bay: William Riley McKeen and the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad

From: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Reutter, Mark | Copyright information

The Pennsylvania Railroad at Bay: William Riley McKeen and the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad. By Richard T. Wallis. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 189. Illustrations, maps, index. $44.95).

Richard Wallis has written a model business history that tells the story of a Terre Haute banker who kept the country's biggest railroad "at bay" for a quarter century. In so doing, he sheds light on a critical phase of American history when railroads, the dominant e...

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