JIM FISK (310 pp.)—W. A Swanberg —Scribner ... he could stand up to such Erie accomplices as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould. Indeed, in his watered-stocking feet, he stood only inches below ...

At the root of the scandal were two well-known scoundrels, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk. The two financiers had worked together in 1868, when they used stock fraud and bribery to keep Cornelius ...

Here was the cartoon legendary illustrator Puck came up with. Source: Life of Jay Gould Fisk and Gould also brought market pressure to bear. By one account, in order to increase traffic on the ...