Lives & Memoirs
Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor
Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard
1915
7h 31m
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He landed with flutes to sell and died the richest man in America. Gebhard follows Astor from a German butcher's son to the Hudson valley fur trade, the China ships, the Astoria venture on the Columbia, and the Manhattan lots he bought while they were still pasture. The origin story of American money, told close to the ground where it was made.
Inside this audiobook
33 chapters
- 1Foreword7m
- 2A Pivotal Day8m
- 3The Forest Village on the11m
- 4The Village School and th8m
- 5Waiting Years9m
- 6John Helffrich's Journal12m
- 7Leaving Home8m
- 8England and America15m
- 9America11m
- 10Beginning the Fur Busines11m
- 11New York a Little City8m
- 12Starting in Business for10m
- 13John Jacob Astor's Home a9m
- 14Independence Day While It12m
- 15Traversing the Wilderness16m
- 16By Canoe Through the Grea19m
- 17Extending the Fur Trade11m
- 18The East India Pass No. 613m
- 19A New Century12m
- 20A Vision that Crossed a C14m
- 21The Voyage of the Tonquin24m
- 22Over the Rockies to Astor32m
- 23Carrying Despatches to Mr19m
- 24England's Trophy31m
- 25John Jacob Astor and the12m
- 26Landlord and Airlord16m
- 27The Astor Family11m
- 28The Astorhaus10m
- 29Homes and Neighbors12m
- 30Literary Friends and Busi15m
- 31Writing 'Astoria'18m
- 32Founding the Astor Librar14m
- 33Gathering the Threads Tog11m
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