History from Farther North #12: William Barstow Strong’s Lasting Legacy

In our latest North Star Monthly column, find out more about the fierce rivalry between William Jackson Palmer, a Civil War general from a Pennsylvania Quaker family, who founded the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, and Brownington native William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. Read more by Dr. Spencer Kuchle, Associate Director of Collections and Interpretation.

 

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