Steamboats, Price Wars, and Protection Rackets

💼🏛️ The Vanderbilt family rose from a modest ferry business to become one of the richest and most powerful dynasties in American history. Their world of mansions, railroads, rivalries, glittering parties, and quiet scandals shaped the Gilded Age and transformed the United States forever.
Tonight, close your eyes and drift into the story of wealth built at impossible speed — and how fortune, fame, and family ambition can rise as quickly as they fall.

👉 Boring History For Sleep | Power, legacy, and the quiet shimmer of a vanished era. 💤