Maury Klein, the most prominent historian of American railroads, has written a rehabilitative biography that stresses Gould the manager, organizer, entrepreneur, and builder.
Kirkland, Charles Francis Adams, 22.
Testimony of Jay Gould, May 19, 1887, PRC, 1:588.
Testimony of Edward Rosewater, June 28, 1887, PRC, 3:134951.
James F. Hudson, The Railways and the Republic (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886), 276-84.
Adams to O. H. Platt, Dec. 11, 1889, UP, PO, OC, vol. 49, ser. 2, r. 48.
Arthur W. Hoyt, Jan. 13, 1879, Journals of Travel to Colorado, WA MSS s-1766, Hoyt Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale Univ.
Testimony of Jay Gould, May 19, 1887, PRC, 1:575, 579-80.