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CROCKER ARRIVES

by Ray A. March

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2012

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CROCKER ARRIVES

Ray A. March

2012

Overview

ʺRight here. This is where weʹll build the hotel,ʺ ordered Charles Crocker, as he jammed his walking cane into the soil that would become the foundation ground for the Hotel Del Monte and the future of the Monterey Peninsula. It was 1879. Crocker was immensely rich and powerful when he arrived in Monterey with his plans to turn it into a grand-scale tourist resort. Crocker was one of the Big Four, the notorious railroad developers of the Gilded Age and builders of the western portion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Like his three partners—Collis Potter Huntington, Leland Stanford, and Mark

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University of Nebraska Press

Subject

Applied ecology

/ Applied sciences

/ Biological sciences

/ Bodies of water

/ Business

/ Business structures

/ Civil engineering