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Palace Car Prince : A Biography of George Mortimer Pullman
author
:
Leyendecker, Liston E.
publisher
:
University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin
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0870813374
print isbn13
:
9780870813375
ebook isbn13
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9780585030487
language
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English
subject
Pullman, George Mortimer,--1831-1897, Businesspeople--United States--Biography, Industrialists--United States--Biography, Pullman's Palace Car Company--History.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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HE2754.P85L49 1992eb
ddc
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385/.22
subject
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Pullman, George Mortimer,--1831-1897, Businesspeople--United States--Biography, Industrialists--United States--Biography, Pullman's Palace Car Company--History.
Page iv
Copyright 1992 by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Leyendecker, Liston E. Palace car prince : a biography of George Mortimer Pullman / Liston Edgington Leyendecker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87081-337-4 1. Pullman, George Mortimer, 1831-1897. 2. BusinessmanUnited StatesBiography. 3. IndustrialistsUnited StatesBiography. 4. Pullman's Palace Car CompanyHistory. I. Title. HE2754.P85L49 1992 385' .22dc20
[B]91-37716 CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
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Cover photo courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society. Cover illustration and design by Kristin Geishecker
Page v
To Florence Lowden Miller
Page vii
Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1. The Family of Lewis and Emily Pullman
11
2. Early Chicago Enterprises
29
3. The Colorado Interlude
51
4. Moving Up
71
5. Pullman Branches Out
97
6. The Pullmans of 1729 Prairie Avenue
109
7. Pullman Expands to England and Italy
127
8. Growth and Tragedy During the 1870s
145
9. Pullman, Illinois
163
10. Consolidation and Growth During the 1880s
179
11. Troubled Times
201
12. The Last Call
239
Appendix: Members of the Board of Directors, Pullman's Palace Car Company, 1867-1897
265
Notes
267
Bibliography
307
Index
317
Page ix
Preface
The myth developed sometime in Colorado's past that George Mortimer Pullman conceived the idea for sleeping car berths from the miners' bunks he saw during the years he spent in Gilpin County, Colorado. Actually, he already had three sleepers operating in Illinois when he arrived in Denver in July 1860, after a hard week's journey from St. Joseph, Missouri. (He traveled by stagecoach, a vehicle that was a far cry from the sumptuous conveyances he would provide for his own traveling customers.)
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