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Browder Clifford <1928-> |
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The money game in old New York : Daniel Drew and his times / / Clifford Browder |
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Lexington : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1986 |
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©1986 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-8789-3 |
0-8131-6224-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations |
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Soggetti |
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Capitalists and financiers - United States |
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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""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 |
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