Cooke Memoir, 136, 148.
Herman Melville, The Confidence Man: His Masquerade (Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1984), 75.
For attempts to monitor the credibility of stock and bond offerings, see John Bonk to J. L. Worth, Feb. 3, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 9.
Richard Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990), 243-48, 243-62.
Richard Eugene Sylla, The American Capital Market, 1846-1914: A Study of the Effects of Public Policy on Economic Development (New York: Arno Press, 1975), 155-61.
Richard White, "Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental Railroads in the Gilded Age," Journal of American History 90 (June 2003): 1943.
Julius Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893: A Study of Businessmen (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1962), 2-4.