The Money Game in Old New York : Daniel Drew and His Times.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (336 pages)
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Illustrations.
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Drew, Daniel, -- 1797-1879. Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography. Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History.