![]() ![]() Long before his adventures in finance, the future robber baron was a young man on the make in his native Catskills, working as a surveyor and mapmaker in his natal place of Delaware County, where he had grown up side by side with the future writer and naturalist John Burroughs. He also left behind a reputation as one of Wall Streets most shrewd, astute, and (some said) manipulative operators. ![]() About the Book A classic history of Delaware County and the border wars written by none other than prominent Gilded Age Robber Baron Jay Gould- Book Synopsis When Jay Gould died in 1892 he left behind an estate worth the equivalent of seventy-eight billion in todays dollars. ![]()
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