
Iron Ties
"The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions…but by iron and blood."—Otto von Bismarck, 1862
Summer 1880. The railroad is coming west, all the way to Leadville, Colorado, and its rich Rocky Mountain mines—and millionaires. Coming to celebrate the arrival of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad is a former president, none other than Ulysses S. Grant, eighteenth pre...
"The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions…but by iron and blood."—Otto von Bismarck, 1862
Summer 1880. The railroad is coming west, all the way to Leadville, Colorado, and its rich Rocky Mountain mines—and millionaires. Coming to celebrate the arrival of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad is a former president, none other than Ulysses S. Grant, eighteenth pre...