Railroaded

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CPH to Charles Crocker, Aug. 21, 1874, Huntington Letters,4:164-65.

Hopkins to CPH, Dec. 29, 1872, CPH Papers, ser.1, r. 5.

Naomi Lamoreaux, Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), 17.

John A. James, Money and Capital Markets in Postbellum America (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1978), 56-57.

Ira B. Cross, Financing an Empire: History of Banking in California, 4 vols. (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1927), 1:259-60.

Testimony of Horace W. Carpentier, Aug. 11, 1887, PRC, 6:3235.