The best account is in Bain, Empire Express, 89-93.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 95.
Bain, Empire Express, 91-93.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 97, 121.
Bain, Empire Express, 142.
Report of the Commission and of the Minority Commissioner of the United States Pacific Railway Commission . . . (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1887), 71.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 140.
"An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes,"; Act of July 1, 1862, Statutes at Large 12 (1863): 489.
Klein, Union Pacific, 22-67
Bain, Empire Express, 153-56.