Mellen to Oakes, Feb. 21, 1893, NP, LRR, PV, 137.H.6.3 (B); Van Horne to Mellen, July 11, 1893, enclosure with Mellen to Oakes, July 15, 1893, NP, LRR, PV, 137.H.6.4 (F).
Van Horne to Mellen, July 11, 1893, enclosure with Mellen to Oakes, July 15, 1893, NP, LRR, PV, 137.H.6.4 (F).
For a far more positive view of Hill, see the hagiographic biography Albro Martin, James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991, orig. ed. 1976).
Jay Cooke to T. F. Oakes, July 27, 1893, NP, LRR, PV, 138.H.6.3 (B).
Report of Dr. Siemens of his Investigation of the Condition of the Northern Pacific, 1, Nov. 1893, NP, 134.F.1.7 (B).
Villard to Oakes, March 1, 1893, box 34, Mss. 88-93, vol. 719, f. 231, Villard Papers..