Quixotic Joust

Banker in St. Louis G.H. Walker son-in-law, Prescott Bush As our readers are undoubtedly aware, Prescott Bush moved to St. Louis aft...

In Part One , we learned that the Vanderbilt brothers bought 35,000 acres of land in Sarasota and Charlotte Counties, Florida, for which the...

Have you ever wondered why George Herbert Walker moved to New York in 1920 after living his entire life up  to that point in St. Louis? That...

  Ralph Ingersoll in 1952 was in the process of retiring. He'd spent years heading Luce publications like Time and Fortune before he fo...

Building electric power and light systems I have written extensively at Where the Gold Is about the decades leading up to creation of the F...