The Truth About Better Decision-Making (Collection), 2/e

Truth 24. Build the city around your decision

James Jerome Hill was born just three decades after Lewis and Clark first blazed trails across the United State to the Pacific. After success in steamboats and other businesses in St. Paul, Minnesota, Hill decided to build a railroad across the prairies of the West. The Canadian Pacific and Northern Pacific lines had already reached the West coast, built with government support, so many thought it was foolish for Hill to attempt to revive the St. Paul and Pacific railway backed by private investors. But Hill ultimately created a network of 6,000 miles of tracks crossing Minnesota, Dakota, and Montana to the Pacific Ocean. Completed in 1893, the Great Northern Railway (which later became part of Burlington ...