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 XVIII. LITTLE FISHES WRIGGLING THROUGH GREEN WAVES., connecting personal narrative with the financial, legal, and prison-world setting of the period. The chapter’s opening perspective is: Once more together and our adventures since we separated related, the question arose: What next? We determined to abandon our dangerous business, for we had capital sufficient to start in an honest career, and resolved to do so.
This chapter is for readers following Bidwell’s memoir chapter by chapter, especially the section titled “Chapter XVIII. LITTLE FISHES WRIGGLING THROUGH GREEN WAVES..” 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 XVIII. LITTLE FISHES WRIGGLING THROUGH GREEN WAVES.” 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.