The Slaying of one of the Biggest Robber Barons, Diamond Jim Fisk (Ep. 192)

Big Jim or Diamond Jim – those were names for the legendary Gilded Age robber baron Jim Fisk. He caused the gold crisis collapse after fooling President Ulysses Grant and stole millions from Cornelius Vanderbilt. A lover’s triangle, at age 37, would lead to his untimely end

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His Trove of Letters Document Bloody Civil War Battles, Prisons, and Conditions (Ep. 191)