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409–10 “The acclamation… every girl that he met”: ibid., 575, 585.
410 “At first he was affable… without restriction”: ibid., 577–78.
410–11 “The time… the people demand”: Sherman and Sherman, 56–57.
411 “There are too many… length on earth”: Greeley, 52, 119–21, 186, 229.
412–14 “He was a very… California endured?”: Twain, Roughing It, 39–40, 54–56, 70–72, 97, 143–44, 150.
415 “Boy That Earth Talks To”: Older, 29.
417 “A good deal”: G. Clark, 175.
418 “I remember”: ibid., 173.
419 “NEW ROAD”: ibid., 204.
420 “I think”: Bain, 109.
421 “We have drawn”: ibid., 115.
423 “You see”: ibid., 137.
423 “They wanted to know”: Daggett, 23–24.
423 “I would have been glad”: G. Clark, 208.
424 “Those mountains”: Bain, 145.
424 “As to work”: ibid., 565.
424 “Mr. Huntington”: letter of Nov. 29, 1861, Leland Stanford papers.
424 “To the extent”: G. Clark, 210.
425 “Brigham was cold”: ibid., 245.
426 “Four or five”: ibid., 213–14.
426 “I was very much prejudiced”: Bain, 208.
426 “To my mind”: G. Clark, 126–27.
427 “Didn’t they build”: Bain, 221.
427 “We swarmed”: ibid., 299–300.
427 “The Atlanta campaign”: Sherman (1875), 889.
427 “I think this subject”: L. Lewis, 595.
428 “Every time”: ibid.
428 “They are not worth”: Bancroft, 7:552.
428 “Baker had electrified”: Sherman (1875), 901.
429 “This is a great enterprise”: Bain, 245.
429 “pure beggars”: L. Lewis, 596.
429 “We must act”: ibid., 597.
430 “we can act”: Bain, 312.
430 “When the opportune moment”: ibid., 350.
431 “We’ve got to clean”: ibid., 351.
431 “Unless some relief”: ibid.
431 “If you don’t choose”: L. Lewis, 598.
433 “free from all danger”: Bain, 274.
433 “We are getting”: ibid., 321.
433 “We send you”: G. Clark, 244.
434 “I did not try”: ibid., 249–50.
434 “Run up and down”: Bain, 447.
434 “to build road”: ibid.
435–36 “We are cribbed… too fast”: ibid., 646–48.
437 “I sat”: Dodge, 55.
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441 “The people who come”: J. Hittell (1863), 333–34.
441 “One man works hard”: O. Lewis, 53.
17. Prometheus Unbound
445 “There were more”: Phillips, 284.
446 “We were very much”: G. Clark, 231–32.
448 “These shares”: letter of May 30, 1868, Leland Stanford papers.
448 “It is the well settled policy”: G. Clark, 280.
448–50 “You have been accredited…my home”: ibid., 309–10.
450 “a dangerous rival”: Daggett, 119.
450 “We must name”: letter of Jan. 3, 1869, Leland Stanford papers.
452 “You are sending”: Daggett, 257.
452 “He had only time”: Norris, 49–51.
455–58 “a cavern… his own corpse”: Brands (1999), 41–48.
459 “At the depth”: Wright, 386.
460–62 “The city and all… generally found it”: Twain, Roughing It, 306–8.
462–63 “I enjoyed… paid them”: ibid., 419–20.
463–66 “Frequently we had… British Museum”: Hargraves, 86–87, 91, 96, 111–16.
466 “Cottages are deserted… powerful auxiliary”: Hughes, 563–55.
469 “George”: Older and Older, 155.
471 “We chose gold”: Bernstein, 250.
471 more gold was mined: Encyclopedia Britannica (1961), 10:481.
473 “If they dare”: Brands (1995), 260–61.
18. American Dreamers
476 “You forget”: Nevins (1955), 607.
476 “If I keep this free”: Jessie Frémont memoirs, addendum.
477 “There were three churches”: S. Royce, 139.
477 “My comrades very generally”: J. Royce (1916), 126–27.
478 “purely aggressive”: J. Royce (1886), 94.
478 “Frémont’s League with the Devil”: J. Royce (1970), 170.
478 “charming and courteous mendacity”: ibid., 199.
478–79 “Nowhere else…on the Pacific Coast”: J. Royce (1886), 2.
479 “of unusual intelligence…of their bereavement”: Farkas, 64.
480 “I have remained”: Perlot, 446.
481 “I will not accept…it is all hell”: L. Lewis, 631–37.
482 “Gold digging is a lottery”: Dillon, 332.
483 “Your hospitality”: ibid., 345–46.
485 “If the Californians”: Emparan, 140–41.
485 “Believe me… Let the wound heal”: Rosenus, 233.
488 “the new new thing”: M. Lewis, The New New Thing.
488 “vein of gold”: Kaplan, 18.
488 “the largest legal creation”: ibid., 16.
489 “We are on the brink”: Bancroft, 6:119.
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