Pinkerton, Personal Record, 52-55.
I take the phrase from Paul Johnson, Sam Patch: The Famous Jumper (New York: Hill & Wang, 2003), 122. Johnson uses it in a somewhat different sense.
Stromquist gives the best account of railroad work.
Shelton Stromquist, A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1987), 108.
Pinkerton, Personal Record, 53, 56-57, 83-89, 100-102, 118-19, 169-72.
Pinkerton, Personal Record, 12-14, 276-77, and passim.
Stromquist, Generation of Boomers, 100-141.
Aldrich found corporate plans to be minimal and inadequate, but neither union plans nor private insurance covered much of the gap.
Pinkerton, Personal Record, 104, 246-57
G. L. Lansing to CPH, Dec. 8, 28, 1883, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 34.