Anschutz, a business owner who collects paintings of the early American West, profiles about 50 business owners from the era: Manuel Lisa, William Henry Ashley, John Jacob Astor, Charles and William Bent, Ceran St. Vrain, Brigham Young, Cyrus H. McCormick, Charles Goodnight, John Wesley Iliff, Charles Boettcher, Henry Miller, Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Henry Wells, William Fargo, John Evans, Benjamin Holladay, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Jr., Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Thomas C. Durant, Cyrus K. Holliday, Theodore D. Judah, George Mortimer Pullman, William Jackson Palmer, James J. Hill, Fred Harvey, Henry E. Huntington, Meyer Guggenheim, Nathaniel P. Hill, John Rockefeller, Edward L. Doheny, George Hearst, Spencer Penrose, Samuel Colt, Levi Strauss, Gustavus Franklin Swift, Andrew Carnegie, Charles A. Pillsbury, Adolph Coors, Henry Ford, Jay Cooke, Walter Scott Cheesman, A.P. Giannini, J.P. Morgan, Harrison Gray Otis, Carl Laemmle, and Buffalo Bill Cody. The men were involved in early trade and commerce, agriculture and livestock, railroads and transportation, mineral extraction, manufacturing, finance and banking, and entertainment and communication from 1800 to 1920. Distributed by the University of Oklahoma Press. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
