Uncle Peter Bines struck it rich in the Western mines; his grandson Percival, heir to it all, is determined to enjoy it in the East. Uncle Peter follows him to New York to keep an eye on things, and the novel plays the plain-dealing West against the polish and greed of Eastern society, Wall Street and fashionable matchmaking.
A lively 1902 satire of new money by the later author of Ruggles of Red Gap. Download the free EPUB.