Quotes About 1869

The goal is the same—the quickest and surest destruction of this foul structure.1 In 1869 Nechaev murdered a member of his own revolutionary cell who tried to defect. He

The event happened at noon on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah. That moment was a pivotal episode in world history as Leland Stanford pounded a golden spike with a silver hammer and in an instant ended the isolation of California and the Great West from the eastern half of the United States.

Rockefeller cited the years 1869 and 1870 as the start of his campaign to replace competition with cooperation in the industry.

The rickshaw was invented by an American missionary, Jonathan Scobie, who first used it to wheel his invalid wife through the streets of Yokohama, Japan, in 1869.

The Last Canyon by John Vernon is a beautiful retelling of John Wesley Powell's 1869 exploration of the Grand Canyon and his and his men's inevitable and tragic clash with a tribe of Paiute Indians who lived on the canyon's northern edge.

Dog Soldier Raid at New Scandinavia—1869

Francis Cook, considered in 1869 one of the three richest men in England. Tennie