The national scene : the national character -- What the young men dream -- Of empire-builders -- The winning of the West -- Two captains of inductry -- The fight for Erie -- Grandeurs and miseries of empire-building -- Rising from the ruins -- Mephistopheles -- Caesar Borgia in California -- Giants of the Northwest -- Certain industrialists arose -- Morgan and the railways -- The robber barons -- Again the robber barons -- Concentration : the great trusts -- The empire of Morgan -- Battle of giants.