H. Craig Miner and William E. Unrau, The End of Indian Kansas: A Study of Cultural Revolution, 1854-1871 (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), 47-48.

Paul Wallace Gates, Fifty Million Acres: Conflicts over Kansas Land Policy, 1854-90 (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1954), 137-39.

Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day, 2 vols. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915, orig. ed. 1873), 1:198.