Evans, Cerinda W. "Collis Potter Huntington"

Cerinda W. Evans.  Collis Potter Huntington. 

Newport News, 1954. Cloth. Two volumes. First edition. Out of print. 

Standard biography of American railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900), whose promotion of the Central Pacific Railroad's extension across the West made possible the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. A member of the Big Four, the California railroad monopoly that included Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker, Huntington built the Southern Pacific Railroad into a 9,600-mile line that was the foundation of rail service in California and the western link for a southern transcontinental route.