Gould’s first major undertaking was the so-called Erie War, a complicated tussle over railroad stock in which Gould and his partner, Jim Fisk, took on Vanderbilt and caught Drew in a “bear ...

”The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869,” by Kenneth D. Ackerman. Harper & Row, 352 pages, $12.95 A year ago, when reports of the FBI investigation at Chicago`s two major ...

The suit of CHARLES C. ALLEN against JAMES FISK, Jr., and JAY GOULD, for false imprisonment, the facts of which have been published in the TIMES, has been settled by a compromise with the ...

Shades of Jim Fisk and Jay Gould! Like those 19th century robber barons, hedge funds and buyout firms have been swarming around railroads in 2007.

The big players in this battle were James Fisk, more commonly known as Jubilee Jim; Jay Gould, the wizard of Wall Street; Daniel Drew, known in the financial world as Uncle Dan'l Drew; and ...

Fisk and partner Jay Gould began with the Erie railroad and, at the height of their spectacular careers, virtually cornered and manipulated the country's private gold reserve.

Fisk and his partner—Jay Gould of the dark, calculating eye—were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew’s grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt.

For the purpose of this book, though, these boldfaced names occupy only the periphery; front and center is Jim Fisk, Gould's partner in speculation, railroad takeover, market manipulation, and ...

Fisk dabbled in bribery and stock fraud with famed financier Jay Gould and others to cheat railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt out of the equivalent of roughly $100 million today.

None struck closer to home than Black Friday — the collapse of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. At the root of the scandal were two well-known scoundrels, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk.