Perkins to Larrabee, Oct. 31, 1887, Larrabee to Perkins, Nov. 18, 1887, Perkins to Larrabee, Dec. 2, 1887, all in C. E. Perkins, Out Letters/In Letters 3, P 4.11 - P 4.3, CB&Q.
Seligman, "Railway Tariffs," 227-28.
The Union Pacific was not quite so helpless.
See, e.g., the Union Pacific's involvement with the Salina, Lincoln, and Western Railway.
Adams to George Miller, April 30, 1886, Memorandum, May 1886; quote, Adams to Hon. A. S. Hewitt, Dec. 10, 1886, 1886, all in UP, PO, OC, vol. 37, ser. 2, r. 32.
Veenendaal, Slow Train to Paradise, 52-53.
Bederman, Manliness and Civilization, 5-20.
Thomas Winter, Making Men, Making Class (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002), 1-27, unlike Bederman, sees manhood as remaining dominant over manliness.
Henry Cabot Lodge, "A Perilous Business and Its Remedy," North American Review 154 (Feb. 1892): 189-95.
Seung-Wook Kim, Accident Risk and Railroad Worker Compensation: An Historical Study, 1880-1945 (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Georgia, 1988), 4-5, 38, 45, 48-49, 50.
For four books that show how critical issues of gender and race became to politics and social reform in the West, see:
Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997).
Ian Tyrrell, True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press,1999).