Receipt, $195.33, Feb. 10, 1868, Dawes to My Ever Dear Wife, June 11, 1868, receipt, June 11, 1868, Ames to Dawes, Oct. 30, 1871, box 37, Credit Mobilier, Dawes Papers.
Jay Cooke took a similar stance.
See Cooke to Schuyler Colfax, Feb. 24, 1873, LBs, Cooke Papers.
Klein, Union Pacific, 295-96.
Summers, Era of Good Stealings, 51-55.