Railroaded

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Gorham broke with Stanford but was still "borrowing" money from Huntington in 1875 and on the Central Pacific's books for "loans" in 1879.

Gorham to Huntington, Oct. 20, 1875, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 6.

Octopus Speaks, 176, 276.

Huntington to Colton, Jan. 24, 1876, Jan. 29, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 229, 230.

Lavender, Great Persuader, 260, 311.

David Rothman, Politics and Power: the United States Senate 1869-91 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966), 32.