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High finance in the sixties; chapters from the early history of the Erie Railway / by Charles Francis Adams, jr., Henry Adams, Albert Stickney ... [and others] edited, with an introduction, by Frederick C. Hicks.
LIBRA 385.9731 ER45H
Available from offsite location
LIBRA 385.9731 ER45H
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Field, David Dudley, 1805-1894.
- Field, David Dudley.
- Erie Railroad Company.
- Albany and Susquehanna Railroad Company.
- Physical Description:
- 7 preliminary leaves, 410 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Chapters from the early history of the Erie railway.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale university press; London : H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1929.
- Contents:
- Preface.
- The vantage point, by F. C. Hicks.
- The march of events.
- A chapter of Erie, by C. F. Adams, jr.
- The New York gold conspiracy, by H Adams.
- An Erie raid, by C. F. Adams, jr.
- The lawyer and his clients, by A. Stickney.
- An inquiry into the Albany and Susquehanna railroad litigations of 1869, and Mr. David Dudley Field's connection therewith, by G. T. Curtis.
- A great lawsuit and a Field fight, by J. S. Black.
- The truth of a "great lawsuit", by A. Stickney.
- Notes:
- "The fifth work published by the Yale university press on the William McKean Brown memorial publication fund."
- The present volume contains only the first three essays of "Chapters of Erie, and otlher essays" first published in 1871. Those omitted have been replaced by four articles on Erie, written separately and published in 1871 and 1872.
- Bibliography: pages [405]-410.
- OCLC:
- 587608
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