The best accounts of the Credit Mobilier are in Johnson and Supple, Boston Capitalists, 195-215 and in Maury Klein, Union Pacific, 34-44.
Klein, Union Pacific, 142-43, 156.
Fisk and Hatch were part of Jay Cooke's organization and thus part of the creation of modern capital markets.
For Fisk and Hatch's marketing, see Fisk and Hatch, Memoranda.
Sylla, The American Capital Market, 146-61.
Lamoreaux, Insider Lending, 90-91.
Richard White, "Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental Railroads in the Gilded Age," Journal of American History 90 (June 2003): 1943.
Baskin, "Development of Corporate Financial Markets," 209, 215-18.
CPH to Crocker, Jan. 8, 1870, Huntington Letters, 3:57.
White: "Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental Railroads in the Gilded Age," Journal of American History 90 (June 2003): 19-43.
Hopkins to CPH, Nov. 11, 1873, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5, Hopkins to CPH, Dec. 4, 1873, ser. 1, r. 6; Fisk and Hatch to the Holders of Central Pacific Railroad Bonds, Jan. 1, 1874, LB 6:45, L. Von Hoffman and Co. to CPH, Nov. 24, 1873, box 22, Hopkins Collection;.