Mammon and the Archer | Historical Context
‘‘Mammon and the Archer,’’ like other stories in O. Henry’s The Four Million, touches on aspects of life in New York City at the turn of the century. During the Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many American cities experienced an unprecedented increase in immigration, much of which was handled through New York’s Ellis Island. In its heyday, Ellis Island processed more than five thousand people per day, and on its busiest day it received almost twelve thousand arrivals. Of all the nation’s major cities, New York experienced...
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