Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (66 page)

28
Maury Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 148.

29
E. B. Crocker to Huntington, April 23, 1867.

30
Charles Crocker comments on the Bancroft biography, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley.

31
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 195.

32
Ibid., p. 196.

33
E. B. Crocker to Huntington, May 22 and 27, 1867.

34
Same to same, May 27, 1867.

35
Sacramento Union,
July 12, 1867.

36
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 197.

37
E. B. Crocker to Huntington, June 26, 1867.

38
Same to same, June 28, 1867.

39
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 197.

40
E. B. Crocker to Huntington, July 2 and 6, 1867.

41
Huntington to E. B. Crocker, Dec. 28, 1867.

42
E. B. Crocker to Huntington, Sept. 12, 1867.

43
Same to same, July 10, 1867.

44
Same to same, Dec. 20, 1867.

45
Same to same, July 10 and Sept. 12, 1867.

46
Huntington to Charles Crocker, quoted in William Deverell,
Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), p. 14.

47
E. B. Crocker to Huntington, Aug. 28, 1867.

48
Sacramento Union,
Aug. 30, 1867.

49
Huntington to E. B. Crocker, Oct. 3, 1867.

50
Sacramento Union,
Dec. 9, 1867; Crocker to Huntington, Oct. 30, 1867.

51
Huntington to Stanford, Oct. 26, 1867.

52
Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, vol. 7, pp. 572-73.

53
Charles Crocker comments on his Bancroft biography, Bancroft Library.

54
E. B. Crocker to Huntington, Nov. 7, 1867.

55
Huntington's comments on the Bancroft history, Bancroft Library.

56
See Kraus,
High Road to Promontory,
chap. 11.

57
Ibid., p. 163.

58
See Harry Carman and Charles Mueller, “The Contract and Finance Company and the Central Pacific Railroad,”
Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
vol. 14, no. 3 (Dec. 1927).

59
See Hopkins to Huntington, March 16, 1868.

60
Hopkins to Huntington, Dec. 1, 1867.

61
Samuel Bowles,
Our New West,
p. 67.

62
Bancroft,
History of California,
vol. 7, p. 570.

C
HAPTER
T
WELVE:
T
HE
U
NION
P
ACIFIC
A
CROSS
W
YOMING

1
E. B. Crocker to Huntington, April 23, 1868, Collis Huntington Papers, Bancroft Library.

2
From the Virginia City [Nevada]
Territorial Enterprise,
quoted in the
Salt Lake Daily Reporter,
July 30, 1868.

3
Chicago Leader,
July 20, 1868.

4
New York Tribune,
Aug. 4, 1867.

5
Ibid., June 30, 1868.

6
Quoted in Robert G. Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
pp. 114-15.

7
Salt Lake Daily Reporter,
June 20, 1868.

8
New York Tribune,
Sept. 18, 1868.

9
Grenville Dodge,
Romantic Realities,
p. 21.

10
Grenville M. Dodge,
How We Built the Union Pacific Railway,
p. 23.

11
Ibid., p. 22.

12
Wesley S. Griswold,
A Work of Giants,
p. 262.

13
Huntington to Stanford, May 22, 1868; E. B. Crocker to Huntington, Oct. 14, 1867; see also Maury Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 150.

14
All these telegrams and hundreds of others are in the UP Archives, Omaha; heartfelt thanks to UP Historian Don Snoddy for typing them all up.

15
Ibid.

16
John Debo Galloway,
The First Transcontinental Railroad,
p. 159.

17
Ibid.

18
Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 150.

19
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 263.

20
David Dary,
Seeking Pleasure in the Old West
(New York: Alfred Knopf, 1995), p. 118.

21
Reed to Crane, Feb. 28, 1868, Reed Papers.

22
Frontier Index,
Dec. 24, 1867.

23
Cheyenne Daily Leader,
April 6, 1868.

24
Charles Edgar Ames,
Pioneering the Union Pacific,
p. 272. When Edward Harriman redid the entire line at the end of the nineteenth century, he went south of the Dale Creek crossing, and the bridge is no longer there. It is possible to walk through the cuts.

25
Reed's various telegrams are in Reed Papers.

26
Quoted in Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 263.

27
Dodge's April 16, 1868, telegram to Browning is in UP Archives, Omaha.

28
Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 151.

29
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 264.

30
Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 272.

31
James Ehernberger and Francis Gschwind,
Sherman Hill
(Callaway, Neb: E.G. Publications, 1978), pp. 14-17.

32
Ferguson Journal, Utah State Historical Society.

33
Ibid.

34
Ibid.

35
David Lemon, “An Experience on the Road,”
Union Pacific Magazine,
May 1924, pp. 5-6.

36
Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 151.

37
Henry Morton Stanley,
My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia,
vol. 1, p. 211.

38
Ferguson Journal, Aug. 17, 1868, Utah State Historical Society.

39
Ibid., July 21, 1868.

40
Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
p. 291.

41
Morris Mills, “With the Union Pacific Railroad in the Early Days,”
Annals of Wyoming,
vol. 3, no. 4 (April 1926), p. 200.

42
Chicago Tribune,
July 16 and Aug. 18, 1868.

43
Mills, “With the Union Pacific,” p. 201.

44
Maury Klein, “The Coming of the Railroad and the End of the Great West,”
Invention and Technology,
vol. 10, no. 3 (Winter 1995), p. 14.

45
Ferguson Journal, June 23, 1868, Utah State Historical Society.

46
Quoted in Klein, “Coming of the Railroad,” pp. 14-15.

47
Charles Edgar Ames,
Pioneering the Union Pacific,
p. 247; Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 156.

48
Ames,
Pioneering the Union Pacific,
p. 275.

49
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
pp. 270-71.

50
Ames,
Pioneering the Union Pacific,
p. 283.

51
Quoted in ibid., pp. 283-84.

52
Quoted in ibid., p. 287.

53
Quoted in Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 165.

54
Salt Lake Daily Reporter,
Aug. 21, 1868.

55
Quoted in Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
p. 114.

56
Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
pp. 168-69.

57
Ibid., p. 175.

58
Western Railroad Gazette,
Sept. 5, 1868.

59
Salt Lake Daily Reporter,
Dec. 15, 1868.

60
Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
p. 176.

61
Western Railroad Gazette,
Nov. 30, 1868.

62
Huntington to Mark Hopkins, May 30, 1868.

63
Klein,
Birth of a Railroad,
pp. 178-79.

64
Ames,
Pioneering the Union Pacific,
p. 287.

65
Salt Lake Daily Reporter,
Sept. 30, 1868.

C
HAPTER
T
HIRTEEN:
B
RIGHAM
Y
OUNG AND THE
M
ORMONS
M
AKE THE
G
RADE

1
Wesley S. Griswold,
A Work of Giants,
p. 274.

2
John Debo Galloway,
The First Transcontinental Railroad,
pp. 241, 244.

3
Robert G. Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
pp. 69-71.

4
Young to Reed, Aug. 10, 1866, and to Dodge, Nov. 5, 1866, Brigham Young Papers.

5
Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
pp. 69-71.

6
Ibid., pp. 75-78.

7
Salt Lake Deseret News,
May 9, 1868.

8
Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
pp. 89-90.

9
Durant to Young, May 6, 1868, Young Papers.

10
Young to Durant, May 6, 1868, Young Papers.

11
Young to Seymour and Reed, May 19, 1868, Young Papers.

12
Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
pp. 90-91.

13
Lewis Barney Papers, Archives, Church of Latter-Day Saints Library, Salt Lake City.

14
Young to Reed, May 29, 1868, Young Papers.

15
Reed to Durant, May 31, 1868, Samuel Reed Papers.

16
Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
p. 83.

17
Cheyenne Daily Leader,
June 15, 1868, quoted in Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
p. 95.

18
Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
p. 90.

19
Ibid., pp. 93-94.

20
Cheyenne Daily Leader,
June 16, 1868.

21
Dodge,
How We Built the Union Pacific Railway,
p. 34.

22
Salt Lake Deseret News,
Sept. 11, 1868.

23
Ibid., June 5, 1868.

24
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 270.

25
Clarence A. Reeder, “A History of Utah's Railroads,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Utah, 1959.

26
Samuel Schill Papers, Archives, Church of Latter-Day Saints Library, Salt Lake City.

27
Hubert Howe Bancroft,
History of Utah
(San Francisco: History Company, 1890), p. 754.

28
Galloway,
First Transcontinental Railroad,
pp. 277-79.

29
Ibid., p. 240.

30
Stanford to Hopkins, June 9, 1868, Huntington-Hopkins correspondence, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley.

31
Young to Stanford, June 23, 1868, Huntington-Hopkins correspondence.

32
Stanford to Young, July 28, 1868, and Young to Stanford, July 29, 1868, Young Papers.

33
Young to Stanford, Aug. 10, 1868, Young Papers.

34
Young to bishops, Sept. 5, 1868, Young Papers.

35
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 254.

36
Stanford to Hopkins, Nov. 9, 1868, Huntington-Hopkins correspondence.

37
Robert Utley and Francis Ketterson, Jr.,
Golden Spike,
pp. 32-33.

38
Stanford to Hopkins, Dec. 10, 1868, Huntington-Hopkins correspondence.

39
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 343.

40
Milando Pratt Memoir, Utah State Historical Library, Salt Lake City.

41
James Maxwell Memoir, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

42
These telegrams and many others are in the Young Papers.

43
Cheyenne Daily Leader,
June 15, 1868.

44
Young memo, Oct. 8, 1868, and Young to Durant, Jan. 9, 1869, Young Papers.

45
Young to Durant, Jan. 9, 1869, Young Papers.

46
Athearn,
Union Pacific Country,
p. 97.

47
W.C.A. Smoot, “Tales from Old-Timers,”
Union Pacific Magazine,
Dec. 1923, p. 12.

C
HAPTER
F
OURTEEN:
T
HE
C
ENTRAL
P
ACIFIC
G
OES
T
HROUGH
N
EVADA

1
Huntington to E. B. Crocker, Jan. 1 and 21, 1868, and E. B. Crocker to Huntington, Jan. 22, 1868, Huntington Papers.

2
Above letters and telegrams all in Huntington Papers.

3
Wesley S. Griswold,
A Work of Giants,
p. 234.

4
Clement to Stanford, July 21, 1887, U.S. Pacific Railway Commission, exhibit no. 8.

5
Ibid.

6
George Kraus,
High Road to Promontory,
p. 159; Griswold,
Work of Giants,
p. 193. Quote from Griswold.

7
Hopkins to Huntington, July 16, 1868, Huntington Papers.

8
Brown's account is reprinted in Kraus,
High Road to Promontory,
pp. 190-91.

9
Southern Pacific Bulletin,
Aug. 1920.

10
Ibid., Sept. 1920.

11
Quoted in Bruce Clement Cooper,
Lewis Metzler Clement,
p. 7.

12
Ibid., p. 194.

13
Griswold,
Work of Giants,
pp. 227-29.

14
Huntington to Hopkins, April 14, 1868, Huntington Papers.

15
Huntington to Charles Crocker, April 15, 1868, Huntington Papers.

16
Stanford to Hopkins, June 9, 1868, Huntington Papers.

17
Charles Crocker to Huntington, June 16, 1868, Huntington Papers.

18
Kraus,
High Road to Promontory,
pp. 196-98.