Hudson River Railroad, 20, 23
introduction, xii, xiv–xv, xxi–xxii
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, 86
legacy, 369–70
Morgan’s opinion of, xv
New York Central, 20–21, 23–24, 86, 145
Panic of 1873 and, 85–86, 90
physical appearance, 6, 9
railroad network, 21, 90, 210
as “robber baron,” 89, 329
as steamship entrepreneur, 4–7, 9–10
“Billy” Vanderbilt and, 7, 9, 23, 101
Western Union, 86
Vanderbilt, Virginia Fair, 307
Vanderbilt, William H. “Billy”
business acumen, 9, 18
competition, 168–69
Cornelius Vanderbilt and, 7, 9, 23, 101
Gould, conflicts with, 168
Harlem Railroad, 18
inheritance, 101, 166
on New York, West Shore & Buffalo, 168
New York Central, 166, 167, 168
railroad alliances, 210
South Pennsylvania Railroad, 169
Union Pacific and, 184, 190
Vanderbilt, William K., 306, 308, 316, 326
Vanderbilt, William K., II, 307
Van Devanter, Willis, 362
Verne, Jules, 45
Villard, Henry
background, 257–59
character traits, 259, 260–62
on Gould, 105
Kansas Pacific, 102–3
mansion, 262, 263
memoirs, 258, 394n261
New York, West Shore & Buffalo, 168
Northern Pacific, 168, 174, 259–63, 267, 269
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, 257, 259, 273
W
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, 153
Wabash line, 117–18
Walden (Thoreau), xvii
Waldorf-Astoria, 283–84, 285, 291–95
Walker, Aldace, 174
Walker, Edwin, 226–30, 393n231
Wall Street
Harlem Railroad stock, 16–19
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, 259
Panic of 1873, 85, 87
Panic of 1901, 322–28
populists, 327–28
reputation, 139–40
Roosevelt and, 333–35, 338–39, 344, 349–52, 351
speculators and manipulators, 7–9, 17–20, 26, 175–76, 259–60, 288–89, 316
structure of traders, 289–91
trading surge (1901), 295, 305–6, 308
women as speculators, 288–89, 316
Warburg, Felix, 188, 335
Warburg, Frieda Schiff, 188
Ware, Norman, 125
Warner, Charles Dudley, xiv, 88–89
Weaver, James, 177
Webster, Daniel, 5
Wells, Ida B., xx–xxi
Western Union Telegraph Company, 86, 91
Whitman, Walt, xxii–xxiii, 64, 113, 139–40, 386n139
Whitney, Asa, 13–15, 68, 70, 80
Wickes, Thomas H., 219–20, 224
Wilkeson, Sam, 74, 76–78, 79–80
Williams, J. M. S., 57–58
Wilson, Jeremiah, 60, 64
Wilson, Woodrow, 359
Wilson Committee, 60, 64, 67, 92
Wolff, Abraham, 188
Wolff, Addie. See Kahn, Addie Wolff
Wolff, Sam, 188
women, as investors, 288–89, 316
women, as passengers, xix–xxi
Woodlock, Thomas F., 342
Woodward, C. Vann, 113–14
Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, 44–45
Wormser, Louis, 318
Worth, Adam, 296
Wright, Carroll D., 223
Wyandots, 71–72
Y
Yellen, Samuel, 115
Young, Brigham, 46, 379n46
Young, John Russell, 78
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Footnotes
* In her journal Fanny named the river they crossed as the Mississippi, but plainly she was mistaken.
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* The entwined fortunes of the Schiffs and Harrimans would continue into the next generation, though not entirely happily: The elder daughter of Morti and Adele, Dorothy Schiff, who reigned as doyenne of New York liberal politics for decades as owner of the New York Post, would cause a furor in 1958 by withdrawing her newspaper’s endorsement of Averell Harriman, Edward’s son, for governor the day before the election. Her action was widely regarded as having helped swing the election to Nelson Rockefeller—William Rockefeller’s grand-nephew.
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