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The money game in old New York : Daniel Drew and his times / Clifford Browder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Browder, Clifford, 1928- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography.
- Capitalists and financiers.
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)--History.
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.).
- Drew, Daniel, 1797-1879.
- Drew, Daniel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813187891
- 0813187893
- 9780813162249
- 0813162246
- OCLC:
- 610185152
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