Statement Showing the Number of Carloads of Cattle . . . Nov. 18, 1884, UP, Freight Auditors LB, MS 3761, ser. 1, box 1, 56:192; Cecil Kirk Hutson, "Texas Fever in Kansas, 1866-1930," Agricultural History 68 (Winter 1994): 74-104.

Clay, My Life on the Range, 183-84.

Whitaker, Feedlot Empire, quote 63, 68-69, 123-26.

See below or the appendix for Chart I: Livestock Shipments by Month on Union Pacific from Nebraska, 1883; Chart K, Livestock Shipments on Union Pacific System for 1883 and half of 1884.