• 18. Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt goes International with his Steamboat Operation

  • Oct 25 2022
  • Length: 39 mins
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18. Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt goes International with his Steamboat Operation

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  • Once the Commodore had gathered resources from selling his prized steamboat routes in the New York Sound, he started focusing on a new enterprise: The California Gold Rush. See many people were traveling to California after 1849, but there were only two ways to get there - trek across America in hostile territory or take a ship around the the tip of South America. Both gave their own set of troubles for the settlers. Vanderbilt, however, saw a third option.

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