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The Man Who Gave the Golden Spike.
By Robin Lampson,
1969.

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[Note: " ... we now know that the spike pictured in the article was NOT the spike at Promontory, but was a second spike that Hewes had made at the same time, and that it was quietly kept in the family until 2005." —Kyle Wyatt]

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