UID:
almafu_9959241788702883
Format:
1 online resource (336 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8131-8789-3
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0-8131-6224-6
Content:
""I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly,"" remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879). An uneducated farm boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River steamboat operator, and an unscrupulous speculator. As the colorful ""Uncle Daniel"" of Wall Street-his whiskered face seamed with wrinkles and twinkling with steel-gray eyes -- time and again he disrupted the financial markets with manipulations whereby he either won or lost millions of dollars.
Note:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue ; 1 Beginnings; 2 Circus and Drover Days; 3 King of the Bull's Head Tavern; 4 Into Steamboating; 5 Top Dog on the River; Illustrations; 6 Wall Street; 7 Enter the Iron Horse; 8 The Best Friend a Railroad Ever Had; 9 Wartime; 10 The Virtuoso of Erie; 11 A Seminary, an Injunction, and a Loan; 12 Uncle Daniel's Little Railroads; 13 The Great Erie War: Preliminaries; 14 The Battle of Wall Street; 15 The Battles of Fort Taylor; 16 The Battle of Albany; 17 Negotiations and Peace; 18 The Greenback Lockup; 19 Respite and Return
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20 Uncle Daniel Buys the Dream; 21 The Last Great Caper; 22 Bankruptcy; 23 The Oldest Man on the Street; Epilogue; APPENDIX: Bouck White's ""Book of Daniel Drew"": An Enduring Fake; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-60174-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8131-5147-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
