Cornelius Vanderbilt grows from a steamboat entrepreneur to the head of a railroad empire .
Cornelius Vanderbilt gets into a heated rivalry with Jim Fisk and Jay Gould ; the up and coming John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil .
Cornelius Vanderbilt grows from a steamboat entrepreneur to the head of a railroad empire , and gets into a heated rivalry with Jim Fisk and Jay Gould ; the up and coming John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil .