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2) The jungle
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A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
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Story of Matthew Ryan, who went from Irish immigrant to cattle king of Leavenworth, Kansas, in partnership with George W. Lang. Well-known through the West, they purchased cattle from Washington and Oregon to drive herds six times a year to the railhead in Cheyenne, Wyoming, from 1877 to 1882. Ryan's four sons later took over the business to form Ryan Brothers, which established ranches in Montana and Arizona and expanded the empire into a successful...