Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 2-4.
CPH to Colton, Oct. 15, 1874, Octopus Speaks, 50-51.
Crocker to CPH, Sept. 18, 1883, Crocker Papers.
Colton to CPH, Jan. 31, 1878, April 15, 16, 1878, Octopus Speaks, 463, 488, 489, 15, n. 18.
CPH to Colton, Jan. 14, 1876, Huntington Letters, 3:445. Octopus Speaks, 286.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 215, 311.
CPH to Colton, Nov. 1, 13, 1874, Huntington Letters, 4:216, 219.
Huntington to Colton, May 1, 1875, Letters from Collis P. Huntington 4: 344.
The Central Pacific used the tactic of running a third candidate to draw off votes from a targeted candidate to defeat Sherman Houghton in 1875, Octopus Speaks, 268.