Railroaded

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Pierre Berton, The Impossible Railway: The Building of the Canadian Pacific - A Triumphant Saga of Exploration, Politics, High Finance & Adventure (New York: Knopf, 1972), 373-77.

Tzu-kuei Yen, "Chinese Workers and the First Transcontinental Railroad of the United States of America" (Ph.D. diss., St. Johns Univ., 1976), 36.

fight immigration restriction, Northern Pacific, Mitchell to Spafford, Jan. 31, 1882, J. H. Mitchell Letters 1882, box 82, f. 579; Villard Papers.

Frank Bowden to Villard, Dec. 13, 1881, box 38, Mss. 8893, vol. 719, f. 273, Villard Papers.

Southern Pacific, CPH to Crocker, Jan. 19, Feb. 4, 1882, CPH Papers, ser. 2, r. 6.

W. Thomas White, "Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Railroad Work Force: The Case of the Far Northwest, 1883-1918," Western Historical Quarterly 16 (July 1985): 268.