Empires of Industry — Season 1, Episode 2: Wildcatters

About Empires of Industry

Chronicling the trades and commodities that made America an industrial power: coal, shipbuilding, brewing, textiles and steel. Also: profiles of magnates such as Andrew Carnegie and Henry Kaiser.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Cola Wars
• E3Battle for the Skies
• E4The DuPont Dynasty
• E5Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel
• E6J. Pierpont Morgan: Emperor of Wall Street
• E7The Kellogg Brothers: Cornflake Kings
• E8Black Gold: The Story of Oil
• E9Brewed in America
• E10War Planes of World War II