Railroaded

in collaboration with The Spatial History Project


The demand to raise money to pay interest is a constant theme in the Huntington/Hopkins correspondence.

CPH to Hopkins, May 8, 1872, LB, 2:117, CPH to Hopkins, Aug. 21, 1872, LB, 2:147, box 20, CPH to Hopkins, Dec. 2, 1872, LB, 3: 57, box 21, Hopkins Collection.

for Northern Pacific, Cooke to Fahnestock, May 26, 1873, LBs, Cooke Papers.

Klein, Union Pacific, 250.

Bensel, Yankee Leviathan, 285-97.

Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1996), 15-20.