Emmons, Garden in the Grasslands, 131-33.
Emmons, Garden in the Grasslands, 135-39.
Samuel Aughey, Sketches of the Physical Geography and Geology of Nebraska (Omaha, Neb., Daily Republican Book and Job Office, 1880), 35, 36, 41-47.
Cary J. Mock, "Rainfall in the Garden of the United States Great Plains, 1870-79," Climatic Change 44 (2000): 191.
Mock, "Rainfall in the Garden," 184, 187-88.
George himself, while denouncing most subsidies, thought that the subsidies for railroads were justifiable under some circumstances, but he thought cash subsidies were preferable to land.
Eggert, Olney, 50.
John Cook to R. Olney, Jan. 3, 1894, Olney Papers, ct. 13, r. 5.