For accounts of the winter, Maurice Frink, Cow Country Cavalcade.
Maurice Frink, Cow Country Cavalcade (Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1954), 57-61.
Quoted in Osgood, Day of the Cattleman, 221.
The losses in Crook, Carbon, and Albany counties in Wyoming were closer to these regions than to the rest of Wyoming. For a good account of Montana, see Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor, As Big as the West.
Frink, Cow Country Cavalcade, 58-59.
Larson, "Winter of 1886-1887," 17.
Clay, My Life on the Range, 179, 220-21.
W. Turrentine Jackson, "The Wyoming Stock Growers Association: Its Years of Temporary Decline, 1886-1890," Agricultural History 22 (Oct. 1948): 265.
Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, vol. 3, Agriculture (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1883), 141.
Eleventh Census of the United States, 1890, Statistics of Agriculture . . . (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1895), Table D.