The Chinese account of the riot is in "Memorial of Hon. Huang Sih Chuen, Chinese Consul, Sept. 18, 1885," in Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai, eds., Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present.

The Chinese received $150,000 in compensation, p. 48. Adams to Gen. F. P. Alexander

The details come from Bromley, Chinese Massacre, 13, 16, 50-53. Bromley was a government director and an ardent opponent of the Knights.

Storti, Incident at Bitter Creek, 108-21.

S. R. Callaway to Adams, Sept. 5, 1885, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 17.

Bromley, Chinese Massacre, 26, 48-53.

The Chinese account of the riot, "Memorial of Hon. Huang Sih Chuen, Chinese Consul, Sept. 18, 1885," in Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai, eds., Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2006), 48-54, original in H. Rept. (1885-86), 49th Cong., 1st sess., no. 2044, pp. 28-32.

Bromley, Chinese Massacre, 13, 16, 50-53.

Adams to Gen. F. P. Alexander, Sept. 1, 1885, Adams to Haskell, Sept. 27, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 29, ser. 2, r. 25.

Klein, Union Pacific, 467.

Bromley to Adams, Sept. 23, 1885, UP, RG 2361, box 21, KL.

Also see S. R. Callaway to Adams, Sept. 20, 1885, UP, RG 2361, box 21, Labor Disputes, Sept. 1885.