Harley, "Western Settlement," 866.
Harley, "Western Settlement," 873, 878.
Robert Higgs, "Railroad Rates and the Populist Uprising," Agricultural History 44 (July 1970): 29198
Mark Aldrich, "A Note on Railroad Rates and the Populist Uprising," Agricultural History 54 (July 1980), 42432.
Aldrich says rates relative to crop prices fell in the 1870s but rose through the 1880s and mid-1890s.
Report of the Industrial Commission on Transportation including Review of Evidence . . . So Far as Taken, May 1, 1900, (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1900), 4:41.
Report of the Industrial Commission on Transportation including Review of Evidence . . . So Far as Taken, May 1, 1900, (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1900), 4:41.