CPH to Hopkins, Sept. 27, 1873, LB, 5:111, box 22, Hopkins Collection.
The Northern Pacific, in part, sold itself to the government as a means to subdue Indians.
Henrietta M. Larson, Jay Cooke: Private Banker (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1936), 254, 273-95.
Robert G. Angevine, The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2004), 194, 198-99.
CPH to Stanford, Feb. 28, 1873, LB, 3:147, box 21, Hopkins Collection.
For break with the Crockers, Hopkins to CPH, Oct. 16, 1870, LB, 1:160-61, box 20, CPH to Hopkins, May 2, 1871, LB, 1:177, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Hopkins, March 17, May 2, 1871, CPH to Stanford, June 6, 1871, Huntington Letters, 3:264, 271, 281.
CPH to Hopkins, March 10, 1873, LB, 4:3, March 17, 1873, LB, 4:21, box 21, Hopkins Collection.