Orsi, Sunset Limited, 105, 130-31, 76-84, 148-156.

For a sample of promotion literature and its scholarship, Overton, Burlington West.

Hedges, "Colonization Work," Maury Klein, Union Pacific, vol. 1, Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987), 325-28.

Union Pacific Railroad Company, Guide to the Union Pacific Railroad Lands, 12,000,000 Acres, Best Farming, Grazing and Mineral Lands in America, in the State of Nebraska and Territories of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah . . . , 5th ed. (Omaha: Land Department, Union Pacific Railroad, 1873 [1872 on title page]).