This account and what follows is drawn largely from Samuel Richey Kamm, "The Civil War Career of Thomas A. Scott," (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1940).
See also, Robert C. Angevine, The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America (Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2004), 133-34.
For the transition from anti-monopoly focused on land issues to wider concerns, see Tamara Venit (Venit-Shelton), "A Squatters' Republic : Land Rights, Reform, and Anti-monopoly in California and the Nation, 1850-1920" (Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, 2008).
Henry Cabot Lodge, "A Perilous Business and Its Remedy," North American Review 154 (Feb. 1892): 189-95.
Seung-Wook Kim, Accident Risk and Railroad Worker Compensation: An Historical Study, 1880-1945 (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Georgia, 1988), 4-5, 38, 45, 48-49, 50.
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.
R. M. Shackelford to CPH, Oct. 13, 1892, E. Curtis to CPH, Nov. 22, 1892, Curtis to CPH, Nov. 29, 1892, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 51.
R. Hal Williams, The Democratic Party and California Politics, 1880-1896 (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1973), 162-73.
By Dec. 10, Curtis said it looked as if White would win, Curtis to CPH, Dec. 10, 1892, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 51.
friend, Curtis to Huntington, Dec. 14, Dec. 16, 1892, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 51.