This slide show is a biography of Jay Cooke and his relationship to the world of the Gilded Age.

1. The Young Entrepreneur, 1840

2. The Patriarch, about 1900

3. Jay Cooke in his prime

4. Jay Cooke, the Veteran Capitalist

5. The Cooke Family, 1892

8. A Check on Cooke’s New York Bank, 1868

9. A Bond

10. Cooke Castle on Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie

11. Rev. Henry, Jay Jr., and Families Playing Croquet

12. Daughters and Grandchildren Picnicking

13. Luxury Pullman on the Northern Pacific

14. Cooke’s Private Steamer

15. The Sportsmen: Cooke, Charles Barney, Henry Cooke

16. Jay Cooke State Park, Minnesota

17. Jay Cooke Statue in Minnesota

18. Jay Cooke Jr.’s Mansion in Philadelphia

19. Charles Barney Mansion

20. John Butler Mansion

21. Midwestern Farmhouse

22. Colorado Mining Town

23. Railroad Workers’ Shanty

24. Eleutheros Cooke’s House in Sandusky, OH

25. Charles D. Barney & Co

26. Southern Pacific ad

27. Cooke’s artist Thomas Moran, 1883

28. Moran at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone, 1871

29. Moran’s sketch of Cinnabar Mountain, 1871

30. Moran’s sketch of Devil’s Slide, Yellowstone, 1871

31. Moran’s Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone, 1871

32. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872, commissioned by Jay Cooke)

33. Marketing the West: A Northern Pacific $60 Chit for the Park

34. Northern Pacific ad for Mammoth at Yellowstone, 1902

35. Marketing the West: Be an Early White Explorer

36. Marketing the West: Nostalgia for Adventure

37. The Old West: Nostalgia or Triumphalism?

38. Northern Pacific ad

39. Old Faithful