The Enterprising Scot. Investors in the American West after 1873
Details:
- Author(s) Jackson, W Turrentine
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1968
- Pages 415pp; illus
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Place Published Edinburgh
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- Name International investment
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Reprinted 2000. Explores the nature and process of Scottish portfolio investment in the USA, chiefly in the Trans-Mississippi West, in areas such as ranching, mining and land mortgage companies registered for the purpose and in securities such as Western railway company bonds. The businesses involved were embryonic investment trusts such as Robert Fleming & Co Ltd; Alliance Trust Co Ltd; Dundee Land Investment Co Ltd; Dundee Mortgage & Trust Co Ltd; Edinburgh Investment Trust Ltd; Scottish American Investment Co Ltd.