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050 00 $aKF373.M394$bB34 2008
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100 1 $aBagley, Will,$d1950-
245 10 $aAlways a cowboy :$bJudge Wilson McCarthy and the rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad /$cWill Bagley.
246 3 $aJudge Wilson McCarthy and the rescue of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
260 $aLogan, Utah :$bUtah State University Press,$cc2008.
300 $axii, 316 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 294-306) and index.
520 1 $a"Born on the frontier at American Fork, Utah Territory, two years after the Denver & Rio Grande Western reached town, Judge Wilson McCarthy lived to try to harness the wonders of the Atomic Age." "After a youth as a cowboy on the Canadian plains, Mormon missionary in Scotland, and law student at Columbia (while working for Tammany Hall), Judge McCarthy advanced from crusading district attorney to judge and banker. He then became one of the most powerful men in America as a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression. His crowning achievement would be the rescue of a legendary American railroad." "The halcyon days of railroads have passed, but the legend of the Denver & Rio Grande lives on. Crossing the Continental Divide, the storied line hauled away vast mineral wealth but had to survive various corporate incarnations, business and political machinations, and a record that for a time earned it the nickname "Dangerous and Rapidly Growing Worse." McCarthy gave the road's employees a stake in the company's success and made it into a "western railroad operated by western men.""--BOOK JACKET.
505 00 $tHappy, optimistic, and good company --$tA prisoner for conscience sake --$tWe have always been sweethearts --$tNo reversals --$tNo fairy godmother --$tThe tug of the west --$tDangerous & Rapidly getting worse --$tLike a drunken gandy dancer --$tThe great arsenal --$tRocky mountain empire --$tA western railroad operated by western men --$tDivers projects of imperial proportions --$tA missed opportunity.
600 10 $aMcCarthy, Wilson$c(Judge)
610 20 $aDenver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.
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