Herbert Hovenkamp, Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1991), 214-15.
McCraw, Prophets of Regulation, 48-49.
Charles Francis Adams, Railroads: Their Origin and Problems (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1878), 148-80.
Testimony of Charles Francis Adams, April 17, 1887, PRC, 1:109.
Perkins to Forbes, Jan. 29, 1884, 3.2-3.5; Perkins to Forbes, Jan. 4, 1884, 1880, 7.2, both in CB&Q.
M. Hughitt to C. F. Adams, Dec. 29, 1888, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 64, f. 1.
Julius Grodinsky, The Iowa Pool: A Study in Railroad Competition, 1870-84 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1950).
Charles Francis Adams, "Which Will Quickest Solve the Railroad Question: Force Bills or Public Opinion?," Oshkosh, Wisc., Sept. 3, 1875, in Charles Francis Adams, Railway Pamphlets, Stanford Univ. Library, 9.
Adams to Callaway, Jan. 11, 1887, UP, PO, OC, vol. 39, ser. 2, r. 34.
Fred L. Ames to Adams, Oct. 5, 1886, UP, MS 3761, SG2, ser. 1, box 31, f. Adams-Anderson.