A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn 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 1889. It is in the public domain.Contents:Preface
Part I: Conditions in Colonial and Settlement TimesChapter:I. The Great Proprietary EstatesII. The Sway of the LandgravesIII. The Rise of the Trading ClassIV. The Shipping FortunesV. The Shippers and Their TimesVI. Girard—The Richest of the Shippers
Part II: The Great Land FortunesI. The Origin of Huge City EstatesII. The Inception of the Astor FortuneIII. The Growth of the Astor FortuneIV. The Ramifications of the Astor Fortune V. The Momentum of the Astor FortuneVI. The Propulsion of the Astor FortuneVII. The Climax of the Astor FortuneVIII. Other Land Fortunes ConsideredIX. The Field Fortune in ExtensoX. 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.
