An opportunity strikes when the St. Paul and Pacific Railway goes bankrupt for ... Narrator] He would do more to transform the northern tier of the United States than any other individual.

Hill and the Great Northern Railway is ... the land or to improve the value of the United States. - [Narrator] Land grants obtained through the Pacific Railway Act served as a powerful catalyst ...

Instead, Grinnell approached the "Empire Builder," James J. Hill, founder of the Great Northern Railway. It was 1891 when Grinnell first made his pitch, the same year that Hill's railroad was ...

ST. PAUL, Aug. 1 -- Judge Lochren to-day in the United States Circuit Court ... State of Minnesota against the Northern Securities Company, the Great Northern Railway Company, the Northern Pacific ...

Each firm was expecting a letter from Frank J. Gavin, president of the Great Northern Railway. Most of Railroader Gavin’s letters are notably brief, but this one was to be a little longer than ...