Van Horne to Harry Abbott, Sept. 21, 1883, LB, 3(1), vol. 1, Van Horne LB.
Van Horne to J. H. Pope, Sept. 10, 1883, LB, 2(2) 1883, vol. 1, Van Horne LB.
W. C. Van Horne to J. Egan, June 20, 1883, Van Horne to Editor, Toronto Globe, July 16, 1883, both in LB, 2(1), vol. 1, Van Horne LB.
William John Pinkerton, His Personal Record: Stories of Railroad Life (Kansas City: Pinkerton Publishing Company, 1904), 21.
Towne to CPH, April 29, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 17.
Pinkerton, His Personal Record, 24; Testimony of J. H. Strobridge, Palace Hotel, SF, Tuesday Aug. 9, 1887, PRC, 6: 3107, corrected, 3139-40.
Eric Arnesen, "'Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down': The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920," American Historical Review 99 (Dec. 1994): 1607.
Testimony of J. H. Strobridge, Aug. 9, 1887, PRC, 6:3107, corrected, 3139-40.
Chew, Nameless Builders, 42-45, says that the maximum number of Chinese workers in the peak month was 5,190.
Peck, Reinventing Free Labor, 51.