03224nam 2200613 450 991046067510332120200520144314.00-8131-8789-30-8131-6224-6(CKB)3710000000334529(EBL)1915733(SSID)ssj0001435167(PQKBManifestationID)11919454(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001435167(PQKBWorkID)11428847(PQKB)10396155(MiAaPQ)EBC1915733(OCoLC)610185152(MdBmJHUP)muse44250(Au-PeEL)EBL1915733(CaPaEBR)ebr11007348(CaONFJC)MIL691456(EXLCZ)99371000000033452920150130h19861986 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe money game in old New York Daniel Drew and his times /Clifford BrowderLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1986.©19861 online resource (336 p.)Includes index.1-322-60174-7 0-8131-5147-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Return20 Uncle Daniel Buys the Dream21 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""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. Having ""got religion"" upon heariCapitalists and financiersUnited StatesBiographyWall Street (New York, N.Y.)HistoryElectronic books.Capitalists and financiers332/.092/4BBrowder Clifford1928-457588MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460675103321The money game in old New York2453024UNINA