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• Dayton, George Draper, 1857-1938
• Gould, Jay, 1836-1892
• Mills, Anson, 1834-1924

• George Draper Dayton: An Autobiography (privately printed, 1933), by George Draper Dayton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth: or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould (Philadelphia: J. C. Yorston and Co., 1893), by Trumbull White (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Story (Washington: The author, 1918), by Anson Mills, ed. by C. H. Claudy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Goodriches: An American Family, by Dane Starbuck (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)

• Andy Blake and the Pot of Gold (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1930), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Andy Blake's Secret Service (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1929), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Andy Blake (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York (based on the 3rd edition, 1913), by William Ingraham Russell (Gutenberg text)

• The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York (based on the 3rd edition, 1913), by William Ingraham Russell (Gutenberg text)

• George Draper Dayton: An Autobiography (privately printed, 1933), by George Draper Dayton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth: or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould (Philadelphia: J. C. Yorston and Co., 1893), by Trumbull White (multiple formats at archive.org)

• My Story (Washington: The author, 1918), by Anson Mills, ed. by C. H. Claudy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey: Autobiography and Letters (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2002), by J. G. M. Ramsey, ed. by William B. Hesseltine, contrib. by Robert Tracy McKenzie (PDF at Tennessee)

• The Early Bird: A Business Man's Love Story (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1910), by George Randolph Chester, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford: A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1908), by George Randolph Chester (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• John Rawn, Prominent Citizen (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1912), by Emerson Hough, illust. by M. Leone Bracker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lion and the Mouse: A Story of an American Life Novelized from the Play by Arthur Hornblow, by Charles Klein, contrib. by Arthur Hornblow (Gutenberg text)
• A Tale of Red Roses (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1914), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wallingford and Blackie Daw (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1913), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wallingford in His Prime (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1913), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young Wallingford (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1912), by George Randolph Chester, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger and Henry Raleigh (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Babbitt (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Sinclair Lewis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells
  • illustrated HTML at wsu.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to be One, by Peter B. Kyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Gilded Age (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Harper and Bros., c1915), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson: By One of the Firm (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1870), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Russian Policy in the Orthodox East: The Patriarchate of Constantinople (1878-1914) (Warsaw and Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2014), by L. A. Gerd (PDF at DeGruyter)

• John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by John D. Haeger (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• Merchants of Deception (online edition; originally published 2004), by Eric Scheibeler (PDF with commentary at transgallaxys.com)

• Famous Fortunes: Intimate Stories of Financial Success (Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co. c1931) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Willing Letters and Papers: Edited with a Biographical Essay of Thomas Willing of Philadelphia (1731-1821) (Philadelphia: Allen, Lane and Scott, 1922), by Thomas Willing, ed. by Thomas Willing Balch
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by John D. Haeger (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Andrew Carnegie: His Methods With His Men (memorial service address, 1919), by Charles M. Schwab
  • page images at Harvard
  • rotated page images at HathiTrust
• Anti-Carnegie: Scraps and Comments (1899), by M. F. Campbell and J. C. Campbell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), by Tom Rea (page images at Pitt)
• Think and Grow Rich (Meriden, CT: Ralston Society, 1938), by Napoleon Hill (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, by Andrew Carnegie, ed. by John C. Van Dyke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie, by Frederick Henry Lynch (HTML at Virginia)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Life of an American Workman (c1950), by Walter P. Chrysler and Boyden Sparkes (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998), by Martin R. Ansell (PDF at Ohio State)

• Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Naomi W. Cohen (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• The Portrait of a Banker: James Stillman, 1850-1918 (New York: Duffield and Co., 1927), by Anna Robeson Brown Burr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900 (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1904), by Henry Villard
  • Volume I (1835-1862): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1863-1900): multiple formats at archive.org

• A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

• River Basin Surveys Papers (partial serial archives)
• Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States (looseleaf series from the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1950s), ed. by James B. Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

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