A Dusty Tomes Audio Book

In Cooperation with Spoken Realms

History of the Great American Fortunes Volume One of Three Volumes by Gustavus Myers. Charles H. Kerr 1909.

Note - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1909. It is in the public domain.

Contents:

Preface

Part I: Conditions in Colonial and Settlement Times

Chapter:

I. The Great Proprietary Estates

II. The Sway of the Landgraves

III. The Rise of the Trading Class

IV. The Shipping Fortunes

V. The Shippers and Their Times

VI. Girard—The Richest of the Shippers

Part II: The Great Land Fortunes

I. The Origin of Huge City Estates

II. The Inception of the Astor Fortune

III. The Growth of the Astor Fortune

IV. The Ramifications of the Astor Fortune

V. The Momentum of the Astor Fortune

VI. The Propulsion of the Astor Fortune

VII. The Climax of the Astor Fortune

VIII. Other Land Fortunes Considered

IX. The Field Fortune in Extenso

X. Further Vistas of the Field Fortune

Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org

Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.