Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (63 page)

7
Ibid., vol. 2, p. 62.

8
The census shows that Illinois grew from 157,000 in 1830 to 1.7 million in 1860; Iowa from 43,000 in 1840 to 675,000 in 1860.

9
John Hoyt Williams,
A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad
(New York: Times Books, 1988), p. 14.

10
William Beard, “I Have Labored Hard to Find the Law,”
Illinois Historical Journal,
Winter 1992, pp. 209-20; Charles Leroy Brown, “Abraham Lincoln and the Illinois Central Railroad,”
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society,
vol. 36 (1943), p. 128.

11
David Herbert Donald,
Lincoln
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 155.

12
Ibid., pp. 155-56.

13
Beard, “I Have Labored,” p. 210.

14
Brown, “Lincoln and the IC,” pp. 122-25, 133.

15
Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 157.

16
Grenville M. Dodge,
How We Built the Union Pacific Railway
(Council Bluffs, Iowa: Monarch Printing Co., 1997 reprint), p. 5.

17
William Goetzmann,
Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1959), p. 295.

18
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 7.

19
Ibid., pp. 16-67.

20
Ibid., p. 19.

21
Dodge,
How We Built,
p. 6.

22
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 23.

23
Dodge,
How We Built,
p. 7.

24
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 31.

25
Williams,
Great and Shining Road,
p. 13.

26
Chicago Tribune,
Jan. 14, 1864.

27
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
pp. 54-55.

28
Dodge,
Hon; We Built,
p. 9.

29
Donald,
Lincoln,
p. 206.

30
Dodge,
How We Built,
p. 5; Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 33.

31
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 34.

32
Ibid., p. 35.

33
Council Bluffs Bugle,
July 1859.

34
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 37.

35
Council Bluffs Nonpareil,
Aug. 12, 1859.

36
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 53.

37
Quoted in George Kraus,
High Road to Promontory: Building the Central Pacific Across the High Sierra
(Palo Alto, Calif.: American West Publishing, 1969), p. 21.

38
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 55.

39
Ibid., p. 62.

40
Ibid., p. 63

41
Ibid.

42
Ibid., p. 66.

C
HAPTER
T
WO:
G
ETTING TO
C
ALIFORNIA

1
Oscar Lewis,
The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938), p. 49.

2
Charles Crocker Memoir, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley.

3
C.B.V. DeLamater Memoir, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley.

4
Lewis,
Big Four,
p. 55.

5
Crocker Memoir, Bancroft Library.

6
Robert Louis Stevenson,
Travels and Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson,
vol. 15 (New York: Scribner, 1895), pp. 124-25.

7
DeLamater Memoir, Bancroft Library.

8
Crocker Memoir, Bancroft Library.

9
DeLamater Memoir, Bancroft Library.

10
Ibid.

11
Ibid.

12
Collis Huntington Memoir, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley.

13
David Lavender,
The Great Persuader
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970), pp. 1-7.

14
Lewis,
Big Four,
p. 222.

15
Ibid., pp. 223-24.

16
Lavender,
Great Persuader,
pp. 12-16.

17
Huntington Memoir, Bancroft Library.

18
William T. Sherman,
Memoirs,
2 vols. printed in 1 (New York: Library of America, 1990 edition, first published 1875), vol. 1, pp. 35-43.

19
Ibid., p. 58.

20
John Debo Galloway,
The First Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific, Union Pacific
(New York: Simmon-Boardman, 1950), p. 80.

21
Lavender,
Great Persuader,
pp. 48-50.

22
Sherman,
Memoirs,
vol. 1, p. 87.

23
Ibid., p. 95.

24
Ibid., p. 101.

25
“Mrs. Judah's Letter [to Bancroft], 12/14/89,” as it is usually cited, is in Anna Judah Papers, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley.

26
Ibid.

27
Carl Wheat, “A Sketch of the Life of Theodore D. Judah,”
California Historical Society Quarterly,
vol. 4 (Sept. 1925), pp. 219-22; Lewis,
Big Four,
pp. 3-5.

28
American Railroad Journal,
April 5, 1851.

29
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” p. 222.

30
Sacramento Union,
June 20, 1854.

31
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” p. 223.

32
“Mrs. Judah's Letter,” Bancroft Library.

33
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” p. 229.

34
Lewis,
Big Four,
p. 11.

35
Ibid., pp. 229-33.

36
Sacramento Union,
Jan. 29, 1859.

37
Lewis,
Big Four,
pp. 236-37.

38
San Francisco Daily Alta California, Oct. 20, 1859.

1
Quoted in Wesley S. Griswold,
A Work of Giants: Building the First
Transcontinental Railroad
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962), p. 15.

C
HAPTER
T
HREE:
T
HE
B
IRTH OF THE
C
ENTRAL
P
ACIFIC

2
Oliver Jensen,
The American Heritage History of Railroads in America
(New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1975), p. 84.

3
Oscar Lewis,
The Big Four,
p. 17; see also Robert West Howard,
The Great Iron Trail: The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad
(New York: Bonanza Books, 1962), p. 107.

4
Carl Wheat, “A Sketch of the Life of Theodore D. Judah,” p. 238.

5
Lewis,
Big Four,
p. 17.

6
Howard,
Great Iron Trail,
p. 107.

7
Theodore Judah,
Report to the Pacific Railroad Convention,
published by
Sacramento Daily Union
, July 25, 1860, in Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley, p. 62.

8
Grenville M. Dodge,
How We Built the Union Pacific Railway and Other Railway Papers and Addresses.
(Council Bluffs, Iowa: Monarch Printing Co., n.d.), p. 10.

9
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” p. 238.

10
Lewis,
Big Four,
p. 18.

11
“Mrs. Judah's Letter [to Bancroft], 12/14/89,” Bancroft Library.

12
Judah,
Report to the Convention.

13
“Mrs. Judah's Letter,” Bancroft Library.

14
Ibid.

15
David Lavender,
The Great Persuader,
p. 87.

16
“Mrs. Judah's Letter,” Bancroft Library.

17
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” p. 242.

18
Ibid., pp. 243-44.

19
Ibid., p. 245.

20
“Mrs. Judah's Letter,” Bancroft Library.

21
Charles Crocker Memoir, Bancroft Library.

22
“Mrs. Judah's Letter,” Bancroft Library.

23
Lewis,
Big Four,
p. 25.

24
“Mrs. Judah's Letter,” Bancroft Library.

25
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” pp. 245-46.

26
Crocker Memoir, Bancroft Library.

27
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” p. 247.

28
Quoted in George Kraus,
High Road to Promontory,
p. 33.

29
Quoted in ibid., p. 33.

30
Sacramento Union,
Aug. 7, 1861.

31
Kraus,
High Road to Promontory,
p. 38.

32
Report of the Chief Engineer of Central Pacific Railroad Company,
Oct. 1, 1861, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley.

33
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” p. 251.

34
Ibid.; John Debo Galloway,
The First Transcontinental Railroad,
p. 61.

35
Robert Russell,
Improvement of Communication with the Pacific Coast as an Issue in American Politics
(Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, 1948), p. 294.

36
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” p. 251.

37
Ibid., p. 252.

38
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 14.

39
Kraus,
High Road to Promontory,
p. 38.

40
Lavender,
Great Persuader,
p. 105.

41
Ibid.

42
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” p. 254.

43
Quoted in Russell,
Improvement of Communication,
p. 296.

44
Dodge,
How We Built,
p. 10.

45
Lavender,
Great Persuader,
p. 108.

46
Russell,
Improvement of Communication,
p. 296.

47
Sacramento Union,
June 18, 1862.

48
Kraus,
High Road to Promontory,
pp. 47-48.

49
Wheat, “Life of Judah,” p. 256.

50
Henry V. Poor, “The Pacific Railroad,”
North American Review,
vol. 128 (June 1879), p. 665.

C
HAPTER
F
OUR:
T
HE
B
IRTH OF THE
U
NION
P
ACIFIC

1
John Hoyt Williams,
A Great and Shining Road,
p. 50.

2
J. R. Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 86.

3
Ibid., p. 123.

4
Ulysses S. Grant,
Personal Memoirs,
2 vols. (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885-86), vol. 2, chap. 2, p. 31.

5
Quoted in ibid., p. 89.

6
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 92.

7
Ibid., p. 91.

8
Ibid., pp. 95-96.

9
Ibid.

10
Ibid., pp. 100, 104.

11
Grenville M. Dodge,
How We Built the Union Pacific Railway,
pp. 10-12; John W. Starr,
Lincoln and the Railroads
(New York: Arno Press, 1981, reprint of 1927 ed.), pp. 201-5. Wallace Farnham, “Grenville Dodge and the Union Pacific: A Study of Historical Legends,”
Journal of American History,
vol. 51 (June 1964), p. 636, calls this story “absurd.” It doesn't seem so to me, or to Alan Nevins, or to other historians.

12
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 133.

13
Maury Klein,
Union Pacific,
vol. 1,
Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893
(Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1987), p. 24.

14
Ibid., p. 23.

15
Ibid., p. 24.

16
Ibid., p. 25.

17
Williams,
Great and Shining Road,
pp. 72-73.

18
Ibid., p. 74.

19
Ibid., p. 70.

20
Starr,
Lincoln and the Railroads,
p. 204.

21
Ibid., pp. 26-27.

22
Williams,
Great and Shining Road,
p. 76.

23
Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 29.

24
Williams,
Great and Shining Road,
p. 80.

25
Ibid., p. 84.

26
Thomas C. Cochran,
Railroad Leaders 1845-1890: The Business Mind in Action,
(New York: Russell and Russell, 1965), p. 99.

27
Quoted in Robert G. Athearn,
Union Pacific Country
(Lincoln, Neb: University of Nebraska Press, 1971), p. 345.

28
Starr,
Lincoln and the Railroads,
p. 208.

29
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
p. 132.

30
Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 29.

31
Ibid., p. 30.

32
Ibid., p. 31.

33
Ibid., p. 32.

34
Ibid., p. 33.

35
Perkins,
Trails, Rails and War,
pp. 91-92.

36
Ibid., p. 151.

37
Ibid., p. 152.

38
Ibid.

39
Ibid., pp. 153-54.

40
Ibid., p. 142.

41
Starr,
Lincoln and the Railroads,
p. 214.

42
Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 39.

43
Alfred D. Chandler,
Strategy and Structure: Chapters in History of the Industrial Enterprise.
(Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1962), pp. 21-22.

44
Ibid., p. 23.

C
HAPTER
F
IVE:
J
UDAH AND THE
E
LEPHANT

1
George Kraus,
High Road to Promontory,
p. 52.

2
Sacramento Union,
July 12, 1862.

3
John Hoyt Williams,
A Great and Shining Road,
p. 56. Judah's report, dated Sept. 1, 1862, is in Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley.