Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
This chapter develops the memoir’s account of Chapter VIII. THE MERRY SUMMER OVER AND NO HARVEST STORED., connecting personal narrative with the financial, legal, and prison-world setting of the period. The chapter’s opening perspective is: From Cologne to Frankfort is about 140 miles, and swiftly our train sped along up the Rhine—the lovely stream about which poets have raved for twenty generations. What scenes have its waters reflected, its mountains looked upon!
This chapter is for readers following Bidwell’s memoir chapter by chapter, especially the section titled “Chapter VIII. THE MERRY SUMMER OVER AND NO HARVEST STORED..” It is most useful for readers interested in financial crime history, nineteenth-century banking culture, criminal justice, prison memoir, and the social setting of the period.
Read “Chapter VIII. THE MERRY SUMMER OVER AND NO HARVEST STORED.” as a historical memoir rather than guidance. The banking procedures, legal assumptions, public reputation, social judgments, travel conditions, and prison practices described belong to Bidwell’s nineteenth-century setting and may not match modern institutions.