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GATEWAY TO THE NORTHERN PLAINS: RAILROADS AND THE BIRTH OF FARGO AND MOOREHEAD
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Engelhardt,2007, Univ. Minn Press, 384p, HD.
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In the 1860s, land speculators in Minnesota and the Dakota Territory expected that a great city would rise where the railroad crossed the Red River of the North. In 1872, after the Northern Pacific Railroad laid its first tracks across the river, it brought settlers, capital, and access to Eastern markets and gave birth to the twin cities of Moorhead and Fargo.
Reviewed in: NRHS Bulletin Vol. 71, Summer 2006, NRHS, page 38.
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