Thompson says that the Texas and Pacific failed to get a majority, but Huntington's lobbyists thought otherwise.
Crocker to CPH, Oct. 16, 1877, Boyd to CPH, Nov. 29, 1877, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 13.
Thompson, Spiders Web, 203.
Boyd to Gates, Dec. 9, 1877, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 13.
C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1951), 65-67.
Dodge to Scott, March 28, 1877, box 180, vol. 346, LBs - Calif. Texas Railroad: Letters, 1874-78, 410, Dodge Papers.
Woodward, Reunion and Reaction, 65-121, 120-29, 132-35, 140-42.
Michael Les Benedict, "Southern Democrats in the Crisis of 1876-1877: A Reconsideration of Reunion and Reaction," Southern History 46 (Nov. 1980): 489-524.
Allan Peskin, "Was There a Compromise of 1877?" Journal of American History 60 (June 1973): 63-75.
CPH to Hopkins, March 3, 1876, Huntington Letters, 3:467
Summers, Press Gang, 109-10
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Woodward, Reunion and Reaction, 101-21.