For a sampling of this literature, see Bensel, Yankee Leviathan, for a powerful state at the beginning, not the end, of Wiebes period. For the modernity of antimonopolism, see Charles Postel, The Populist Vision.
Roy, Socializing Capital, 4.
David Haward Bain, Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (New York: Viking, 1999), 711.