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Primary Source Documents


Recommended Documents:

"What California Railroads Have Done", David L. Phillips
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ railroad/phillips.html

Andrew Carengie's so-called "Gospel of Wealth" is actually two articles published in the North American Review in 1889:

“Wealth,” by Andrew Carnegie, North American Review 148:391 (June 1889), 653-665
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0148-88

“The Best Uses of Wealth,” by Andrew Carnegie, North American Review 149:397 (December 1889), 682-699
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0149-83

The full text of Carnegie's Autobiography is available on Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Hp95knunLqoC&printsec =frontcover&dq=Andrew+Carnegie+Autobiography& ei=Pv7CR9XRC7a4igHDy_W6CA&sig=MFLMNsmNWzmpjHMgWTlQC9twT5o#PPP1,M1

The only known recording of Carnegie’s voice, a five-minute version of his gospel of wealth:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07303/829537-28.stm


Related Documents:
Closing the Western Frontier
The Architecture of the West
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ west/westarch.html

As Some Things Appear on the Plains and Among the Rockies in Mid-Summer
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
west/rockies.html


Beef and Beans
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ west/beef.html

California: For Health, Pleasure and Residence
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ west/calif.html

The Extermination of the American Bison
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ west/bison.html

Frontier Justice
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/

west/justice.html

I Will Go West
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ west/gowest.html

Indian and Oklahoma Territories
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ west/oklahoma.html

The Growth of Cities
Ben Dickstein
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
city/ben.html


The Ginsbergs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
city/ginsberg.html

Harry Reece (Daca) . . . His Story
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
city/reece.html


Mr. Paul's Story
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
city/paul.html


Mapping Population Growth in Chicago, 1850-1900
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
city/growth.html


Urban and Suburban Living
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
city/urban.html


Vertical Growth of the American City
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
city/vertical.html


Industrial Cities
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
city/industry.html

Rural Life
Don't Leave the Farm Boys
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
rural/leave.html


Home Remedies

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ rural/remedies.html

House Calls

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ rural/calls.html

North Dakota in the 1890s - A Photo Collage
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ rural/photos.html

People Were Frugal
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ rural/frugal.html

Rural Life in the 1870s
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/
rural/life.html


Shaken Loose and Moving
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ rural/shaken.html

The Railroads
The Great Railroad Strike of 1894
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ railroad/strike.html

Railroad Building in Texas
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ railroad/texas.html

Working on the Central Missouri Pacific Railroad
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ railroad/cmp.html

Railroad Land Grants
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ railroad/grants.html

Building the Transcontinental Railroad
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ railroad/trans.html

Spanning the Nation
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ railroad/span.html

Labor
Circus Days and Ways
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ work/circus.html

Connecticut Clock Maker
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ work/clock.html

George Estes and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ work/estes.html

Impact of Machinery on Making Shoes
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ work/shoes.html

Interview with Miss D.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ work/missd.html

Piece Work in the Knife Factory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ work/knife.html

The Trade Union Woman
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ work/union.html

The Workers' Anvil
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/ work/anvil.html

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