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Land Grants and Railroad Entrepreneurship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Thomas C. Cochran
Thomas C. Cochran
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University of Pennsylvania
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Extract

The effects of Federal and state land-grant policies on railroad investment, railroad policy, and regional economic development are too varied to be treated in less than a volume. And such a book would require much research that has not as yet been attempted. The following discussion presents only brief notes on a few of the reactions of railroad entrepreneurs to land-grant policy. These notes were accumulated in the course of research on other problems and are in no instance complete enough to warrant broad generalizations.

Type
North American Railroads
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 10 , Supplement S1 , 1950 , pp. 53 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1950

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