The two species were Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis.
Breen, Canadian Prairie West, 35-64.
Brayer, "British Capital," 87-92.
Texas fever, Handbook of Texas Online.
Whitaker, Feedlot Empire, 50-62.
Statement Prepared by Theodore McMinn, Nimmo, Report, 93-94.
The classic account of these towns is still Robert Dykstra, The Cattle Towns (New York: Knopf, 1968), 38-39, 55, 60-73.
Ogallala emerged later as the final terminus of the southern trail.
John Clay, My Life on the Range (New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961, orig. ed. 1934), 107-8.
The number rose to 34,400 in 1875, had more than doubled, to 73,094, by 1877, and then exploded with the return of prosperity, rising to 121,571 in 1881 and 207,574 in 1882, before falling back to 177,651 in 1883.
"Eleventh Annual Livestock Report, Kansas City Stock Yards for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1881," 33, 1880, 1.92, CB&Q, "Twelfth Annual Livestock Report, Kansas City Stock Yards for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1882," 33, 1870, 8.12, CB&Q.
David Galenson, "End of the Chisholm Trail," 352-53.
Dodge to Bond, Dec. 26, 1875, box 180, vol. 346, Dodge Papers.
Osgood, Day of the Cattleman, 90.