Talk:Oregon land fraud scandal
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Peteforsyth in topic Interesting similar activity (1917)
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Source for expansion/citations edit
- Looters of the Public Domain Aboutmovies (talk) 09:43, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
What railroad? edit
In looking through the above book, I'm wondering if it was actually lands of the Northern Pacific Railway, not the Oregon & California, that were involved? O&C isn't directly mentioned in the book, but Northern Pacific is. Wonder if we can get a definite answer... -Pete (talk) 09:55, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
- That has been my hesitation in expanding definitively. It seems clear from the sources I added yesterday that the O&C lands were involved, but the scandal was probably widespread like any good scandal (eg, the S&L scandal wasn't just one S&L). The Puter book is a bit sensational to get facts out of. The Golden Goose article cited would be great to read but I've only found it as a terciary source so far. --Esprqii (talk) 15:27, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Interesting similar activity (1917) edit
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_LyI9AQAAIAAJ/page/n619 -Pete Forsyth (talk) 18:27, 24 October 2018 (UTC)