CONTENTS Golden Ties about the Golden City The Beginnings of a Great Fortune The First Developments of the Formula for Sudden Wealth The Formula for Wealth as It was Worked in Chicago and New York The Story of the Great Milwaukee Deal The Story of the Hocking Valley Loot The Story of the Two Virginians The Office Boy in High Finance Additional Light in the Judicious Mixture of Politics and Business that is Essential to the Best Playing of the Game Tobacco and High Finance The Syndicate Comes In The True Dimensions of a Great Money-making Machine The Great Game of Insurance The Wreck of a...

CONTENTS THE BEGINNINGS OF THE GOLDEN NORTHWEST HOW ONE MAN CAME TO WRECK THE MAGIC OF THE MIXING-HOUSE-WITH OTHER STRANGE MATERS PHANTOM SWITCHING, FALSE BALANCES THE HIGHLY INSTRUCTIVE STORY OF THE "FEED WHEATS" MAKING A JOKE OF THE BALLOT-BOX THE CRUSHING OF THE FARMERS' EXCHANGE UNEQUAL FIGHTS ON MANY FIELDS THE SPINNING OF THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE SOME ADVENTURES IN PHILANTHROPY WHAT CAME OF ONE FARMER'S RUIN THE FIRST VICTORY "THE FARMERS' LEGISLATURE" THE LEAGUE AND THE WAR THE FARMERS IN COMPLETE CONTROL SCHISMS AND INJUNCTIONS FIGHTING IN THE LAST TRENCH THE FAMOUS, BANK CASE AT FARGO...

This biography is the result of 14 years of sympathetic study and research among all categories of material wherein could be turned up the slightest bit of information concerning this "literary forger" who committed suicide in his teens. "A biography of such remarkable merit, historical and critical, that it will instantly take a high place among the best productions of its class. One must turn many a page in many a book to find a finer, nobler piece of writing than Mr. Russell's preface and the book itself is in fitting sequence." - New York Times This title is cited and recommended by the...