The best sources on Buchanan are Robert E. Weir, Knights Unhorsed: Internal Conflict in a Gilded Age Social Movement (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 2000), 73-96.
Enyeart, Quest for Just and Pure Law, 25-28, 41-84 passim,
and Buchanans own autobiography, Joseph R. Buchanan, The Story of a Labor Agitator (New York: Outlook Company, 1903), stove, 54-55, pistols, 240-41, antimonopoly, 100-102, 254-74, 276-77.
Adams to Callaway, Oct. 20, 1884, UP, PO, OC, vol. 24, ser. 2, r. 21.
Adams to Callaway, Sept. 26, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 32, ser. 2, r. 27.
Leon Fink, Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1983), 4.
Clark told Buchanan, who believed him that he had not ordered the cuts, a lie, which was one of the many things that enraged Adams.
Weir, Knights Unhorsed, 76-77.
Buchanan, Labor Agitator, 70-77, 82-99.
Maury Klein, Union Pacific, vol. 1, Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983), 453-54.
Weir, Knights Unhorsed, 78-79.
Buchanan, Labor Agitator, 142-46, 154-56, 250-53.
Michael J. Cassity, "Modernization and Social Crisis: The Knights of Labor and a Midwest Community", Journal of American History 66 (June 1979): 43-48.
Adams to Callaway, Oct. 10, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 32, ser. 2, r. 28.
Adams to Joseph E. Johnston, July 12, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 29, ser. 2, r. 24.