Leland Stanford: The Controversial Life of America’s Western Railroad Tycoon

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Source/Further reading:

https://governors.library.ca.gov/08-stanford.html

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stanford-thomas-welton-8620

https://www.nga.org/governor/amasa-leland-stanford/

https://www.sciencealert.com/an-incredible-45-day-storm-turned-california-into-a-300-mile-long-sea-and-it-could-happen-again

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflood-lessons-from-forgotten-catastrophe/

http://cprr.org/Museum/Bailey_CPRR_1908.html

https://archive.org/details/southernpacific0000yenn/page/10/mode/2up

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leland-Stanford

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-stanford/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/18/forgotten-by-society-how-chinese-migrants-built-the-transcontinental-railroad

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/transcontinental-railroad-completed

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/08/first-transcontinental-railroad-stanford-forever-linked/

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2900464

https://gizmodo.com/7-things-we-learned-about-the-world-thanks-to-photograp-453528816

https://www.stanford.edu/about/history/

https://www.hoover.org/research/herbert-hoover-graduate-have-stanford-degree-will-travel

https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/people/hall-of-fame/detail/leland-stanford

https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/the-mysterious-murder-of-jane-stanford-university-12482745.php

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/who-killed-jane-stanford

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