Jay Gould: America's Most Ruthless Robber Baron

It's hard to deny that Jay Gould was one of the wealthiest American businessmen of the 19th century, but he also might have been the most brazen criminal in North America.

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Sources/Further reading:

https://books.google.ro/books?id=Yz-uPPnoHQUC&pg=PP5&lpg=PP5&dq=jay+gould+Hobart+Academy&redir_esc=y&hl=ro#v=onepage&q=jay%20gould%20Hobart%20Academy&f=false

https://books.google.ro/books?id=Oetqt4uqaJsC&pg=PA393&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://archive.org/details/historyofdelawar00goul

http://www.waynehistorypa.org/places/id/153

https://zadockprattmuseum.org/zadock-pratt-the-man/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/07/28/the-baron-and-how-he-robbed/7865febf-1557-4bbf-abb4-576db5cb7d8f/

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_goldlost_1.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1859/10/07/archives/suicide-of-a-newyork-merchant-charles-m-leupp-the-leather.html

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1886/01/21/106179072.pdf

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/05/04/the-time-a-con-man-brought-minnesota-to-the-brink-of-war-with-canada

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2012/09/robber-barons-gould-and-fisk/

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gordon_gordon_10E.html

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-black-friday/

https://www.businessinsider.com/jay-gould-biography-2013-2#the-plan-ended-up-backfiring-on-gould-and-ended-up-implicating-president-grant-16

https://www.businessinsider.com/jay-gould-biography-2013-2#gould-died-in-1892-many-were-relieved-21

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