The rise of the moguls. Speculation as martial art ; One nation under rails ; The first triumvirate ; Toil and trouble -- Frontiers of enterprise. The conquest of the South ; Lakota's last stand ; Profits on the hoof ; To make the desert bloom -- Gotham and Gomorrah. The teeming shore ; Cities of the plain ; Below the El -- The finest government money can buy. School for scandal ; The spirit of '76 ; Lives of the parties ; Capital improvements -- The decade of the century. Meet Jim Crow ; Affairs of the heartland ; The wages of capitalism ; Tariff bill and dollar mark ; Imperial dreams ; The apotheosis of Pierpont Morgan -- Epilogue: the democratic counterrevolution.