Instead, Grinnell approached the "Empire Builder," James J. Hill, founder of the Great Northern Railway. It was 1891 when Grinnell first made his pitch, the same year that Hill's railroad was ...

It’s a story I think deserves to be told.” A map from around 1893 depicting the completed route of the Great Northern Railroad. (Contributed by Kyle Kegley) ‘An American story’ The Great ...