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1826–2026 · THE LEG'S MAP
The leg's fortunes fall into five eras, and each fortune on this ground is assigned to its own. Trading and land (1826–1880): the treaty grants (the article above) and the prairie holders — Reynolds, Clark and Ranstead, 7,433 acres together — sized in the sector article below. Industrial (1880–1963): the Service grain-and-banking house, the Brummitt mercantile and its bank — sized below by sector. Philanthropy: not an era here so much as a turn, measured in its own article — the college gift, the water-works guarantee, the Carnegie grant, the Bendix acres. Modern (1990– ): the steel ventures and the data ground — fortunes of corporations, not families, whose local measure is payroll and plant, carried in the businesses file; no family fortune of the modern era is published for this ground, and the era prints at that size. The great houses: the closing article — one house whole, the rest at their record. The map is this section's table of contents, and its honesty is its gaps: two of the five eras hold no family fortune the record can size, and they are printed anyway, because an era structure that omits its empty eras is a sales brochure.
Sources:
- The articles of this section, each at its carrier — the assignments as worked by this section from the banked fortune material.