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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dodge, Fred. Under cover for Wells Fargo: the unvarnished recollections of Fred Dodge / edited by Carolyn Lake. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1969. (xx, 280p., ill., maps, ports., 22cm)
Fradkin, Philip. Stagecoach Wells Fargo & the American West. New York: Simon & Shuster Source, c2002. (Description: xxi, 250p., [32]p. of plates; ill., maps; 25cm)
Hungerford, Edward. Wells Fargo: advancing the Amercian Frontier. New York: Randown House, 1949. (xvi, 274p, ill., ports,; 24cm)
Jackson, W. Turrentine. Stages, mails and express in Southern California: the role of Wells, Fargo & Co. in the pre-railroad period. Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Fall, 1974. (39p)
Wells Fargo Historical Services. Wells Fargo Since 1852. San Francisco: Wells Fargo & Company, 2002. (40p., ill.)
Wilson, Neill Compton. Treasure Express: epic days of the Well Fargo. New York: Macmillan, 1936. (322p., ill., plates)
Winther, Oscar Osburn. Express & Stagecoarch days in California: from the Gold Rush to the Civil War. Berkeley: Stanford University Press, 1936. (197p.: plates, maps, facsims)
VIDEO
Wells Fargo Creative Services. Wells Fargo: The Universal Friend and Agent. 2002 (15 min.)
PHOTO CREDITS
  • The image of Wells Fargo's first public announcement in the New York times is from the Winther book, opposite page 66.

  • The image of bank agent John Q. Jackson is from the forty page booklet created by the Wells Fargo Historical Services, titled Wells Fargo Since 1852.

  • The image of the Concord Stagecoach diagram is also taken from the booklet, Wells Fargo Since 1852.

  • The image of stagecoach driver Shotgun Taylor is also from the booklet titled, Wells Fargo Since 1852.

  • The image of the "shotgun messengers" is from Wells Fargo Since 1852.

  • The image of the miner inside a Wells Fargo express office was taken from the Winther book, opposite page 139.

  • The image of Dale Robertson on the cover of TV Guide was from a website created on geocities at http://home.att.net/~faithwalker/wellsfargo.html

  • The image of the Norwest Logo is from the former Norwest Homepage (http://www.norwest.com) which is now redirected to the Wells Fargo homepage.

  • The image of the Brinks, Inc. truck and Brinks, Inc. armored agent is from the Brinks Inc., homepage at http://www.brinks.com.

  • The following images are from the Wells Fargo History Home Page at http://www.wellsfargohistory.com:

  • 1. The image of a Concord Stagecoach on display

  • 2. The image of the horses pulling the stagecoach

  • 3. The image of Henry Wells

  • 4. The image of William Fargo

  • 5. The image of the first San Francisco Office

  • 6. The image of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Montgomery Street.

  • 7. The map is of the combined territory of today's Wells Fargo and Norwest, on a map of Wells Fargo & Co's routes of 1904.

ENDNOTES
  • (1) Hungerford, Wells Fargo: advancing the American Frontier, p.4.

  • (2) Winter, Express & Stagecoach days in California, p.130

  • (3) ibid.

  • (4) Wells Fargo Historical Services, Wells Fargo Since 1852, p .4

  • (5) ibid.

  • (6) Wells Fargo Creative Services, Universal Friend and Agent (video)

     
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