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Hayden was very familiar with Jay Cooke's desire to promote the Yellowstone region for the Northern Pacific Railroad and had attended Nathaniel P. Langford's January 1871 lecture in Washington, D.C., on the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone of the previous year. [3]
Jay Cooke (August 10, 1821 – February 16, 1905) was an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar ...
Colonel Stanley's and Lieutenant Colonel Custer's Expedition on the Yellowstone, 1873. Lubetkin, M. John, Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, The Sioux, and the Panic of 1873, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma 2006 ISBN 0-8061-3740-1
Cooke was interested in the potential of the Yellowstone region to attract railroad business. After the expedition, Cooke financed Langford's early 1871 speeches in Virginia City, Helena, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. about the 1870 expedition on behalf of the Northern Pacific Railroad. [2] [3] [4]
Envision Jay Cooke and the mind's eye goes to standing on the iconic suspension bridge over the churning, and at times mesmerizing, St. Louis River and its gorge. First built in 1924 by the U.S ...
What has helped make Yellowstone such a cultural phenomenon is the show's commitment to taking risks — especially with its onscreen deaths. The hit series, which premiered on Paramount in 2018 ...
The Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 was an expedition of the United States Army in the summer of ... Lubetkin, M. John, Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific ...
Season 5, episode 9 of Yellowstone concludes with a card that reads "In Loving Memory of Billy Klapper." Klapper, who appeared as himself in a cameo earlier in the episode, died on September 10 ...