The money game in old New York :: Daniel Drew and his times /

""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 steamb...

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1. Verfasser: Browder, Clifford, 1928-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lexington, K.Y. : University of Kentucky, ©1986.
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Zusammenfassung:""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 heari
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and index.
ISBN:9780813162249
0813162246

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