Railroaded

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For other accounts of Congressional action see Maury Klein, The Union Pacific.

Arthur M. Johnson and Barry E. Supple, Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads; A Study in the Nineteenth-century Railroad Investment Process (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1967), 197.

Maury Klein, The Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893 (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1987), 13-16.

David Bain, Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (New York: Viking, 1999) 115, 141-43.

Robert Fogel, The Union Pacific: A Case in Premature Enterprise (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1960), 48.