THE BIG FOUR

'''The Big Four''' was the name popularly given to the chief entrepreneurs in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad, the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States. However, the four of them preferred to be known as "The Associates".

★ Leland Stanford - President

★ Collis P. Huntington - Vice President

★ Mark Hopkins - Treasurer

★ Charles Crocker - Construction supervisor and president of ''Charles Crocker & Co.'', a CP subsidiary.

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In popular culture

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In popular culture

Ambrose Bierce included characters based on the Big Four in his work ''Black Beetles in Amber'' as Sootymug (Hopkins), Happy Hunty (Huntington), Cowboy Charley (Crocker) and Leland, The Kid (Stanford).^[1]

References

★ Nothing Like It In The World; The men who built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869, Ambrose, Stephen E., , , Simon & Schuster, 2000, ISBN 0-684-84609-8
1. Black Beetles in Amber Bierce, Ambrose

External links

★ The Story of the Central Pacific. The Rise of the Big Four: Huntington, Stanford, Crocker, and Hopkins. By WF Bailey The PACIFIC MONTHLY January, 1908.