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CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE

I. Jay Gould a Great Man 9

II. Youth and Ancestry of Jay Gould 18

III. Gould as Surveyor and Historian 29

IV. Gould and the Tannery War 37

V. Gould's Romantic Marriage and First Railroad 49

VI. Gould's Assault upon Erie 58

VII. Gould's Victory and Final Defeat in Erie 73

VIII. The Gold Conspiracy 88

IX. Culmination of Conspiracy—Black Friday 106

X. Gould and the Western Railway Systems 132

XI. Gould and the Telegraph Monopoly 151

XII. Gould and the Manhattan Elevated 161

XIII. The Life of a Wall Street King 170

XIV. The King is Dead 181

XV. Jay Gould Laid to Rest 193

XVI. Personal Characteristics of Jay Gould 214

XVII. The Family of Jay Gould 226

XVIII. The Great Fortune and Its Inheritors 245

XIX. Jay Gould's Relations with the Public 264

XX. A Chapter of Anecdotes 280