America's Most Violent Wealthy Family Fortune: The Dark History of the Heinz Dynasty

America's Most Violent Wealthy Family Fortune: The Dark History of the Heinz Dynasty In this video, The Land Barons uncovers across 9 chapters how a country with no cash paid for a transcontinental railroad in dirt and gave away 130 million acres — more than California — in a checkerboard of alternating squares — the mountains that started a few miles outside Sacramento, the Chinese crews left out of the ceremony photographs, the construction company insiders billed themselves through, the settlers shot dead in a California valley over a price that changed — and squares that still decide where you can walk today. 🤠 Welcome to The Land Barons. We make documentary videos about the families and companies that once owned enormous pieces of America — the cattle kingdoms of Texas, the water empires of California, the timber fortunes of the Pacific Northwest. How they got the land. What it made them. How they lost it. If you've ever driven past a fence that runs for an hour and wondered who owns all of this, we'd love to have you here. 🔔 Subscribe for more deep dives into the American land empires built on ambition, water, and borrowed time. #landbarons #americanhistory #landempires