Jim Swike

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Captain Vanderbilt has made arrangements for running the fine steamboats Cleopatra and Clifton from this city to Oyster-Pond Point and Sag Harbor.” The paper helpfully noted, “The east end of Long Island offers a quiet and agreeable retreat from the noise, heat, and polluted air of the town.”
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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