High finance in the sixties
Subtitle: chapters from the early history of the Erie Railway
By: by Charles Francis Adams, Jr. ... [et al.] ; edited, with an introduction, by Frederick C. Hicks.
Contributors: Hicks, Frederick C. b. 1875.; Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915.; William McKean Brown Memorial Publication Fund.
Publisher: Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Published: 1929
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Field, David Dudley, 1805-1894.; Erie Railway.; Albany and Susquehanna Railroad Company.; Railroads -- Northeastern States -- History.
Other titles: Chapters from the early history of the Erie Railway.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-410).
"The fifth work published by the Yale University Press on the William McKean Brown Memorial Publication Fund"--P. following t.p.
The present volume contains only the first three essays of "Chapters of Erie, and otlher essays" first published in 1871.  Those omitted have been replaced by four articles on Erie, written separately and published in 1871 and 1872.
Table of contents: title: The vantage point / by Frederick C. Hicks; title: The march of events; title: A chapter of Erie / by Charles Francis Adams, Jr.; title: The New York gold conspiracy / by Henry Adams; title: An Erie raid / by Charles Francis Adams, Jr.; title: The lawyer and his clients / by Albert Stickney; title: An inquiry into the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad litigations of 1869, and Mr. David Dudley Field's connection therewith / by George Ticknor Curtis; title: A great lawsuit and a Field fight / by Jeremiah S. Black; title: The truth of a "great lawsuit" / by Albert Stickney.