MSU Billings Library Lecture Series Land of Locomotives: Railway Mania: Fraud, Corruption, & the Making of the Transcontinental Railroads

MSU Billings Library Lecture Series Land of Locomotives: Railway Mania: Fraud, Corruption, & the Making of the Transcontinental Railroads
In this presentation, Dr. Cody Patton delves into the underbelly of the Gilded Age transportation revolution by exploring the corporate fraud, political corruption, and economic disasters that accompanied the construction of America's transcontinental railroads during the nineteenth-century.
MSUB LI 231
06:30 PM - 07:30 PM on Tue, 14 Oct 2025
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MSU Billings Library
406-657-2262
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MSUB LI 231
1500 University Drive
Billings,
Montana
59101
406-657-1662
library@msubillings.edu