Nye, Much of this discussion is indebted to Meikle, Leo Marxs The Machine in the Garden, 147-59,
and John Kassons, Civilizing the Machine.
Jefferson to Charles Wilson Peale, April 17, 1813, in Robert C. Baron, ed., The Garden and Farm Books of Thomas Jefferson (Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 1987), 202.
Maury Klein, The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1986), 93, 146, 195.
Norris, Octopus, 32-33.
Norris, Octopus, 386-87.