He was a man who aggressively elbowed his way to the public trough. He not only got aid for railroads, but he secured supply contracts and swindled Indians during the Grant Administration. He headed the Texas & Pacific lobby from late 1874 through most of 1875, and remained an active advisor to Scott into 1878.

Stanley P. Hirshson, Grenville M. Dodge: Soldier, Politician, Railroad Pioneer (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967). For his relations with Scott, 183-85, 187-88, 190-91. Indian trade, 185-86, 196, 198. Credit Mobilier, 192-93. For lies and exaggerations, 195.

Wallace D. Farnham, "Grenville Dodge and the Union Pacific: A Study of Historical Legends," The Journal of American History 51 (March 1965), 632-50.

Farnham questions Dodge's accounts of meetings with Lincoln and his discovery of the route over the Laramie Mountains. Hirshson offers a somewhat tepid defense, 297.