Chapter 3: Friends, footnote 6, page 95 Ch3 fn. 6 p. 95 Tags: Collis P. Huntington, Corporate and Business Organization, Government Documents, Histories and Biographies Texas and Pacific Railroad Company Backbone Grant Act, March 3, 1871, 41st. Cong., ch. 122. 16 stat. 573. David Lavender, The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington (Niwot: Univ. Press of Colorado, 1998), 304.