Economic Cycles Before the Fed

Further reading:

Early Speculative Bubbles and Increases in the Supply of Money by Douglas E. French

A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II by Murray N. Rothbard

The Mystery of Banking by Murray N. Rothbard

The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies by Murray N. Rothbard

The Panic of 1837 and the Contraction of 1839-43: A Reassessment of its Causes from an Austrian Perspective and a Critique of the Free Banking Interpretation by H. A. Scott Trask

The Independent Treasury: Origins, Rationale, and Record, 1846-1861 by H. A. Scott Trask

The Depression of 1873-1879: An Austrian Perspective by Patrick Newman