Larson, Cooke, 338.
den Otter, Philosophy of Railways, 161-62, 170.
Cooke to Gen. George Sargent, April 20, 1871, Northern Pacific, Letters no. 1 (LB), Jan. 19, 1870 - Sept. 27, 1871, Private Letters, Jay Cooke.
tributary, Cooke to Geo. W. Colton, March 26, 1873, LBs, Cooke Papers.
den Otter, Philosophy of Railways, 158.
Pierre Berton, The Impossible Railway (New York: Knopf, 1972), 8.
den Otter, Philosophy of Railways, 158.
Hincks and Macdonald later tried to cast all this in a very different light.
Others associated him with the original goal of soliciting American capital.
Earl of Dufferin to Earl of Kimberly, Aug. 15, 1873, no. 4. p. 7, 30.
Testimony of Sir Francis Hincks, Sept. 4, 1873, "Report of the Royal Commissioners," 94-103.
Testimony of Jan Charles Chapais, Sept. 12, 1873 "Report of Commissioners," 141-2.
Testimony of John Mcdonald, Sept. 17, 1873, "Report of Commissioners," 171-80, 186.