”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 Dark Genius of Wall Street The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons by Edward J. Renehan Jr. Basic Books, 352 pp., $30 Jay Gould was blasted in his obituary as "a wrecker ...

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 plaintiff.

At the height of the Gilded Age, two crooked opportunists by the names of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk were fishing for gold. It was right after the Civil War, and the American economy was in shambles.

"The gold circulation in the U.S. was roughly $20 million of gold … so Jay Gould and his friend, Jim Fisk, thought about this, and they said, ‘You know what?

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.

Little did he know that as he was buying up every Erie share on the market, Erie partners Jay Gould and James Fisk countered by putting 100,000 fake Erie stocks for sale, a trick that wouldn't ...

Illustration depicts James Fisk Jr (left) and Jay Gould (center), with an unidentified man (standing), as they plot to corner the gold market, 1869. This precipitated the financial panic of 1869 ...

Meet Jay Gould, a notorious figure on Wall Street in the late 1800s known for his ruthless tactics in the railroad and telegraph industries. Gould and his partner James Fisk orchestrated a scheme ...

The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield by H.W. Brands Anchor, 224 pp., $15 (paper) ...