Gilded Age Entrepreneur details the life of an unjustly forgotten Gilded Age figure. Older brother of the notorious George Pullman, Albert Pullman made three early contributions to the success of Pullman’s Palace Car Company: his elaborate designs made Pullman cars distinctive; he hired the first African American Pullman porters; and he cleverly marketed the cars to multiple audiences on excursion runs and by planting newspaper stories. But his biography has a wider significance. Albert Pullman is representative of the stratum of everyday entrepreneurs whose persistent, evanescent, frantic, and often unproductive investments undergirded economic activity. Tapping into networks of like-minded individuals, he skirted the fluid line between legal and fraudulent business practices, his frequently calamitous investments reminding us of the precarious nature of Gilded Age capitalism beyond the well-known Robber Barons. And then brother George erased him from history.