Mark Summers, The Era of Good Stealings (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993), 50-54.
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.
Klein, Union Pacific, 302-03.
Summers, Era of Good Stealings, 50-54.
Klein, Union Pacific, 289-90.
Summers, Era of Good Feelings, 231-37.
Cooke to A. H. Barney, Feb. 21, 1873.
defends land company, Cooke to Edwin Ellis, March 31, 1873, Cooke to Wm. McKnight, May 26, 1873.
bond guarantees, Cooke to Fahnestock, March 21, 1873, all in LBs, Cooke Papers; Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke, 2:303, 331-32.