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Jun 2022
38m 16s

What I Learned from The Quiet Cowboy, Th...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, J.D. Wininger, owner of the Cross-Dubya Ranch, tells the story of a man named John who kept to himself most of the time. Chicago's very best local historian, Tim Samuelson, tells the story of the great Chicago fire of 1871. Tim Leuliette tells us how he began his career at Ford Motor Company under the leadership of Lee Iacocca and Henry Ford II.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - What I Learned from The Quiet Cowboy

12:30 - The Great Chicago Fire and the Even Greater Recovery

37:00 - Tim Leuliette Went to Business School... at Ford Motor Company

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