About this episode

The episode explores the early days of America in 1776 and the resources that contributed to its growth.

Paul Grant Truesdell, Sr. Paul Grant Truesdell | Founder & CEO The Truesdell Companies The Truesdell Professional Building 200 NW 52nd Avenue Ocala, Florida 34482 212-433-2525 - Switchboard paul@truesdell.net - General Email Websites truesdellwealth.com ttruesdell.net paulTruesdell.com The Long Bet Two and a half million souls, a wild coast, and the wager that built an empire Picture the whole country in 1776. Every man, woman, and child who called this new place home — you could have gathered them all up, and you still wouldn't have filled a big modern stadium twice over. Two and a half million people. That was it. They were strung out along the eastern rim of a wild continent, their backs to the ocean and their faces to a wilderness nobody had mapped. No army worth the name. No treasury. No factories humming in the night. By every measure the world used to keep score back then, they were nobody. And you and I both know how that story turned out. Now, the land itself was a character in this tale — maybe the leading one. Endless timber. Rivers that ran like highways before anybody laid a road. Black soil that went down and down. Coal and iron, and one day oil, sitting in the…

People in this episode

Host: Paul Grant Truesdell

Topics covered

• American history
• independence
• economic development
• land resources
• colonial America

Keywords

• 1776
• American history
• independence
• economic development
• land resources

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Organizations: The Truesdell Companies

Places: Ocala, Florida

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