Here’s “The Man Who Hit the Mother Lode,” by Patrick Cooke for the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal, July 7 & 8, 2018.
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“A monumentally researched biography of one of the 19th century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile…John Mackay spent a lifetime defying odds.”