Thompson, Spiders Web, 167-72, 276-77.

George C. Benson, Political Corruption in America (Toronto: Lexington Books, 1978), 61.

Dodge to Chandler, Dec. 26, 1875, box 160, LBs, Texas & Pacific Railroad, Dodge Papers.

Maury Klein, Union Pacific, vol. 1, Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987), 374.

Legal Expense Voucher of W. E. Chandler, Oct. 31, 1874, Testimony of John P. Usher, PRC, 3:1706-7.