| CHAP. | | PAGE |
| I. | Jay Gould a Great Man | [9] |
| II. | Youth and Ancestry of Jay Gould | [18] |
| III. | Gould as Surveyor and Historian | [29] |
| IV. | Gould and the Tannery War | [37] |
| V. | Gould’s Romantic Marriage and First Railroad | [49] |
| VI. | Gould’s Assault upon Erie | [58] |
| VII. | Gould’s Victory and Final Defeat in Erie | [73] |
| VIII. | The Gold Conspiracy | [88] |
| IX. | Culmination of Conspiracy—Black Friday | [106] |
| X. | Gould and the Western Railway Systems | [132] |
| XI. | Gould and the Telegraph Monopoly | [151] |
| XII. | Gould and the Manhattan Elevated | [161] |
| XIII. | The Life of a Wall Street King | [170] |
| XIV. | The King is Dead | [181] |
| XV. | Jay Gould Laid to Rest | [193] |
| XVI. | Personal Characteristics of Jay Gould | [214] |
| XVII. | The Family of Jay Gould | [226] |
| XVIII. | The Great Fortune and Its Inheritors | [245] |
| XIX. | Jay Gould’s Relations with the Public | [264] |
| XX. | A Chapter of Anecdotes | [280] |