Mexico added some new figures to the mix, such as Albert Kingsley Owen.
Hart, Empire and Revolution, 107-15.
CPH to Crocker, May 9, 1881, CPH Papers, vol. 28, ser. 2, r. 6.
David Pletcher, Rails, Mines, and Progress.
The fight with Gould was also international in scope.
Klein, Jay Gould, 236.
Buss, Villard, 43-55, 72-79.
C. E. Bretherton to Villard, Jan. 10, 1878, Feb. 7, 26, 1879, box 88, f. 641, Villard Papers
Frederick Billings to Villard, March 14, 1881, box 43, f. 312, Villard Papers.
Grodinsky, Transcontinental Strategy, 135-41, 203-8.
Buss, Villard, 56-128.
Villard to Col. Gray, Aug. 11, 1881, Villard to Gen. H. Haupt, July 30, 1881, General Manager, NP, both in vol. 719, LBs, 46, Villard Papers..
James A. Ward, That Man Haupt: A Biography of Herman Haupt (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1973), 219.
Villard to Oakes, July 18, 1881, LB, Private Letters, 40 A, 188.
Villard to Mr. Norris, July 23, 1881, 198-208, Villard Papers..