Orsi, Sunset Limited, 105, 130-31, 76-84, 148-156.
For a sample of promotion literature and its scholarship, Overton, Burlington West.
Dobak demonstrates that railroads were not necessarily essential to the eradication of buffalo.
For citations on recent literature on bison, see Geoff Cunfer.
Andrew Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000).
Dan Flores, "Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy: The Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850," Journal of American History 78 (Sept. 1991): 465-85..
The classic account of these towns is still Robert Dykstra, The Cattle Towns (New York: Knopf, 1968), 38-39, 55, 60-73.
Ogallala emerged later as the final terminus of the southern trail.
John Clay, My Life on the Range (New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961, orig. ed. 1934), 107-8.
There were less dramatic fluctuations on the roads east of the Missouri. The Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley, which was controlled by the Chicago and Northwestern, increased its shipments of animals from 93,626 tons for 1885-86 to 159,356 for 1886-87. The traffic in animals fell for the Chicago and Milwaukee from 372,699 tons (5.69 percent of total traffic) to 343,014 (4.67 percent); for the Chicago and Northwestern it rose from 407,443 (4.78 percent) to 418,098 (4.25 percent); for the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba, the least important livestock road, it remained stationary at from 21,126 tons (1.5 percent) to 21,138 (1.2 percent).