Liston E. Leyendecker research files on George Pullman, 1975-1979.

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Liston E. Leyendecker research files on George Pullman, 1975-1979.

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Research files, transcripts of original Pullman documents, and manuscript drafts by Liston E. Leyendecker, who a professor of American history at Colorado State University and author of Palace Car Prince: A Biography of George Mortimer Pullman (1992). Materials include four manuscript drafts, as well as transcripts of letters from George Pullman to his mother (1857-1861).

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