Richard Rayner The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California, Norton: New York, 2008, 223 pp.
Portraits of Collis Porter Huntington [1821-1900], Mark Hopkins [1813- ], Hon. Leland Stanford [ - ] and Charles Crocker [ - ] are drawn by the author who repeats the accusations of great crimes against all of these men including treason, bribery, murder and embezzlement, more of which are still to be documented. In their favor they acquired great fortunes, while developing the transportation monopoly.