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Jay Gould : His Business Career, 1867-1892 /

Grodinsky, Julius

Jay Gould : His Business Career, 1867-1892 / Julius Grodinsky. - 1 online resource (630 p.) - Anniversary Collection .

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Index to Abbreviations of Companies -- Bibliographical Note -- Contents -- CHAPTER I. Introduction -- CHAPTER II. The Pre-Gould Erie -- CHAPTER III. Gould Acquires the Erie -- CHAPTER IV. Gould Expands the Erie -- CHAPTER V. Gould Manages the Erie -- CHAPTER VI. Gould Leaves the Erie -- CHAPTER VII. Gould Acquires the Union Pacific -- CHAPTERV III. Gould Utilizes the Union Pacific -- CHAPTER IX. Gould Merges the Union Pacific -- CHAPTER X. Gould Acquires the Wabash -- CHAPTER XI. Gould Tempts W. H. Vanderbilt -- CHAPTER XII. Gould Battles C. E. Perkins -- CHAPTER XIII. Gould Moves into the Southwest -- CHAPTER XIV. Gould Acquires the Western Union -- CHAPTER XV. Gould Acquires Manhattan Elevated -- CHAPTER XVI. Gould Creates Empire—East -- CHAPTER XVII. Gould Creates Empire—West -- CHAPTER XVIII. W. H. Vanderbilt Takes the Offensive -- CHAPTER XIX. Gould Fights the Burlington -- CHAPTER XX. Gould Holds in the Southwest -- CHAPTER XXI. Gould's Empire Crumbles -- CHAPTER XXII. Gould's Empire Reorganized -- CHAPTER XXIII. Gould Monopolizes Western Union -- CHAPTER XXIV. Gould Trades: To 1884 -- CHAPTER XXV. Gould Trades: September 1884-1886 -- CHAPTER XXVI. Gould Expands in Kansas and Colorado -- CHAPTER XXVII. Gould Contracts and Expands in the Southwest -- CHAPTER XXVIII. Gould Stabilizes Rates -- CHAPTER XXIX. Gould Experiments -- CHAPTER XXX. Conclusion -- Index

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781512811995 9781512816488

10.9783/9781512816488 doi


BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business.

Autobiography. Biography.

CT275.G6 / G7

923.373