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| Lost 267 men at the battle of Little Big Horn |
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| Sioux Warrior. Led attack on Custer |
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| Nez Pierce indian Chief "I will fight no more forever" |
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| Wrote the book entitled "Century of Dishonor" |
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| Sold Mining supplies. Credited for discovering Denver |
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| Comstock Lode was a mining shaft of "Blue Rock". Had traces of Silver |
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| Started a cattle Trail. Texas to Whyoming |
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| Started Abiliene, Kansas. Cowtowns, loading cattle onto railcars. |
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| Wrote the Jungle. Exposed the ills of the meat packing industry |
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Nations 1st Financier...
Bought carnegie steel and renamed it US Steel |
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Started Standard Oil.
The most Ruthless |
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| Pioneers of sears and Roebuck. 1st to sidplay jewelry, color photos in catalog. The catalogs were used in schools as math books. |
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| Invention Factory. Famous for Light Bulb |
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| Fathers of Labor and Labor unions. Tried to cut down gap between rich and poor |
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| Started a Settlement called Hull House in South Chicago. It gave the poor a place to live. |
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| Started Tuskegee institute for Free Blacks. Blacks learned trades, alike a vocational school. |
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| John (or Washington) Roebling |
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| Used Steel Beams for Skyscrapers |
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Created the Bessemer Converter.
A steel Furnace that converted iron to steel with molten hot air. |
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| Was a Railroad Consolidator. He would buy out little railroad companies and combined them under One name. |
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| Built 1st Bridge that Spaned the Mississippi River. |
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