Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West

Rating:
Summary: Needed a Bit More Focus...
Review: Stagecoach was an attempt to cover the history of the Wells Fargo company. Frankly, it read a little bit like it was the product of the Wells Fargo pr Department, but the real "problem" is that the author tried to cover both the days of the Historic Wells Fargo entity AND the mergers which led to the present day bank. In doing this, the author ended up really giving the short shrift to both.

The author also made some rather "strange" errors. For example, on p182 the author wrote:

"Sometimes small amounts of salt were added to the ice to slow the melting process.." Uh.. no. Salt water melts at a lower tempature. That's why it is used in the winter time to melt ice on streets and why it is used in Ice Cream freezers as well. Adding salt to the ice melts the ice FASTER (but also imparts more cool, faster...)

I would hope that this author were to revisit this subject and produce a new edition which focuses and expands on the pre-split Company and ignores, or at best relegates to a footnote, the Norwest merger...