W e all know how a golden spike , driven in northern Utah in 1869, finally let us travel by rail from Atlantic to Pacific. But did you know that the first transcontinental railroad was finished fifteen years earlier, in 1854, and not in the United States? It began with three specu ...
https://www.flexport.com/blog/trade-merchants-rich-california-gold-rush/ Miners vs. Merchants: How Global Trade Made Men Wealthy during the California Gold Rush Tags: History Peter Yang Back to Home History Miners vs. Merchan ...
This painting is said to be after a portrait by Gilbert Stuart. In 2802, Stuart complained to the Circuit Court of the Eastern District of the United States that John E. Sword of Philadelphia (1765-1810) had ordered a portrait of George Washington from him and "did shortly afterwards take the ...