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Leland Stanford

The Octopus and Its Grandchildren
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When an 1882 cartoon in San Francisco’s Wasp newspaper depicted the Southern Pacific Railroad as an octopus with the whole state of California in its far-reaching tentacles, it launched an…

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California. II.–What to see there, and how to see it
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June 1872

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