The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

Karl Jacoby

336 pages hardcover 2016

4 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and scores of mines and haciendas in Mexico. But for al...

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