Railroaded

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Van Horne to Purvis, July 14, 1884, Van Horne LB, 6, vol. 2, 901-10

Van Horne to C. J. Brydges, Feb. 23, 1884, Van Horne LB, 4: 856-6, vol. 1.

Van Horne to Purvis, Sept. 16, 1885, Van Horne LB, 13: 455-58, vol. 2.

Van Horne to Egan, Jan. 6, 1884, Van Horne LB, 4:180-82, vol. 1.

Van Horne to C. J. Brydges, July 26, 1883, Van Horne LB, 2 (2):498, vol. 1.

John C. Hudson, "The Grain Elevator: An American Invention," ed., Measure of Emptiness (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1992), 92.

The classic account of this transformation of nature into commodity is William Cronon, Natures Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: Norton, 1991), 97-147.