Berton, Impossible Railway, 52-55, 77-80, 83, 121.
testimony of John Macdonald, Sept. 17, 1873, Report of the Royal Commissioners, Canadian Pacific Railway Correspondence, 171-73.
Americans, J. Gregory Smith to Cooke, March 14, 1872, Cooke Papers; Hugh Allan to an American gentleman . . . in New York, July 1, 1872, Aug. 7, 1872, 55-57.
Earl of Dufferin to Earl of Kimberly, Aug. 15, 1873, no. 4, p. 8.
Allan contended that he informed the Americans in October of 1872 that his negotiations with them were at an end and that he wrote New York to this effect in December.
Cooke to Fahnestock, March 3, 1873, Cooke to McCulloch, March 28, 1873, LBs, 1873, Cooke Papers.
Berton, National Dream 86.
Cooke to Fahnestock, March 3, 1873, LBs, 1873, Cooke Papers.
In 1869 Huntington proposed to Cooke that he make an alliance with the Canadian Pacific.
The Early of Dufferin to the Earl of Kimberly, May 3, 1873, no. 1, p. 1-2 in in Canadian Pacific Railway Correspondence.
Den Otter, Philosophy of Railroads, 170.
Cooke to Hon. L.S. Huntington, Aug. 19, 1871 Northern Pacific Letters No. 1 (Letterbook), Jan. 19, 1870-Sept.