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The Great Adventure: Six Wagons to the Sea (1963)
Episode 4, Season 1
Armenian farmers buck the monopoly of the Southern Pacific Railway - a dramatized version of real events
8 December 2012 - 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.
This is a dramatized story of actual historical events. When the Southern Pacific R.R. raised their freight prices, the Seropian Brothers,of Fresno resorted to shipping their produce with two wagons and even running blockaded railroad crossings to get their produce to San Francisco.
The San Francisco Examiner ran an editorial on 18 November, 1894 in support of the Seropians. The news spread rapidly and support for the Seropian brothers came in both moral and substantial form, including offers of more mules from a wealthy land owner in Mexico. In the end, a new stretch of railroad was built that competed with the Southern Pacific, ending the monopoly just two years after the Seropians had begun their struggle.
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