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.
For an interpretation and emphasis different from my own, see Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 56-68.
CPH to Hopkins, Jan. 10, 1877, LB, 9:123, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
Henry Blair to CPH, July 19, 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 48.
CPH to Crocker, Jan. 8, 1870, Huntington Letters, 3:56.
CPH to Hopkins, March 16, 1872, LB, 2:51, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Colton, April 27, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 240.
Wm Mills to CPH, Dec. 21, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 16.
J. A. Slye to CPH, April 10, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 14.
John P. Young to Richard T. Colburn, Aug. 9, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 10.