Today on Prestigious Minds we talk about the history of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Most hear the name and think of the labor strikes of the late 19th century. There is more than to the Pinkertons than meets the eye. Pun intended.. Join us for this amusing take on the Pinkerton Detective Agency!

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• Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency and the Information Work of the Nineteenth-Century - Surveillance State - University of Texas Press
• Search Strategies & Selected Articles - Pinkertons: Topics in Chronicling America - Research Guides at Library of Congress
• Amazon Hires Pinkerton Spies to Monitor Unionization Efforts: Report
• Smithsonian: Outlaw Hunters
• Pinkerton Detectives Still Exist, and They’re Tired of Being the Bad Guys - WSJ
• THE INFAMOUS ATTACK ON THE JAMES HOME – Chicago Tribune

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This has been a long journey for the Commodore, but after many successes in business he is reaching the end of the line (no pun intended). He has to find a way to save his railroad operation in economic downturn, and with his depleting health he has decided on an heir. Part 2 of 2 final episodes.

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This has been a long journey for the Commodore, but after many successes in business he is reaching the end of the line (no pun intended). He has to find a way to save his railroad operation in economic downturn, and with his depleting health he has decided on an heir. Part 1 of 2 final episodes.

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Vanderbilt takes his family on the tour of the "Old World" (Europe), and even build a luxury cruise ship for the journey, the North Star. All the while his business partners plan to betray him on the Southern Route.

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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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On this episode of Prestigious Minds we tell the popular fairytale of two children left in the woods to starve by their selfish step-mother. This one is a doozy you do not want to miss it!

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This is a modern take of Rapunzel with the original details. There is also the discussion of the origin story that is just as interesting as the fairytale itself, but does not end well for the young maiden.

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