CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I Fun and Finance of Boyhood . . . . 11 



II First Days in Wall Street . . . . .32 



III War Time and Gold 57 



IV Business or Gambling . 74 



V Market Manipulation 88 



VI The First Corner in Currency . . . .110 



VII " I've Sold the Treasury Dry! _ . 128 



VIII A Wall Street Pool 148 



IX In the Saddle Again 159 



X Bubbles 176 



XI Steamships and Subsidies 206 



XII From the Street to the Wilds . . . 232 



XIII Camping with Comanches 251 



XIV Historic Indian Councils 269 



XV Buffalo and Duck Shooting .... 287 



XVI Physics and Philosophy . , 309 



XVII The Call of the Street 323 



XVIII Rise and Fall of the Bankers and Mer- 

 chants 342 



XIX Courts and Corruption 363 



XX Mining Camps and Dynamite .... 385 



XXI Hunting and Prospecting in the Rockies 399 



XXII An Encounter with a Grizzly . . . 419 



XXIII Photographing Wild Life 439 



XXIV The Happy Valley 455 



