CHAPTER I The Rise and Fall of Maxim and Gay CHAPTER II Mining Finance at Goldfield CHAPTER III The Brewing of a Saturnalia of Speculation CHAPTER IV The Greenwater Fiasco CHAPTER V On the Eve of the Great Goldfield Smash CHAPTER VI Nipissing and Goldfield Con CHAPTER VIII The Press Agent and the Public's Money CHAPTER IX The Wall Street Game CHAPTER X Enter, B. H. Scheftels and Company CHAPTER XI A Fight to the Death CHAPTER XII The Lesson of It All BY logo RICHARD G. BADGER Copyright, 1911, by The Ridgway Company Copyright, 1913, by Richard G. Badger All rights reserved The Gorham Press, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. To The American Damphool Speculator, surnamed the American Sucker, otherwise described herein as The Thinker Who Thinks He Knows But Doesn't—greetings! This book is for you! Read as you run, and may you run as you read. G. G. R. New York, March 15, 1913. |