Pinkerton, Personal Record, 127-28.
Charles Francis Adams, Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), 192.
The internal battles continued to the end; see Holcomb to Adams
Adams Diary, Nov. 22, 26, 1890, Adams Papers, r. 3
Charles Francis Adams, Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c. 1916), 198
Klein, Union Pacific, 631.
Adams, Autobiography, 198.
The classic account of these towns is still Robert Dykstra, The Cattle Towns (New York: Knopf, 1968), 38-39, 55, 60-73.
Ogallala emerged later as the final terminus of the southern trail.
John Clay, My Life on the Range (New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961, orig. ed. 1934), 107-8.