Nimmo, Report, 61.
Texas fever, Handbook of Texas Online.
Whitaker, Feedlot Empire, 50-62.
Statement Prepared by Theodore McMinn, Nimmo, Report, 93-94.
The number rose to 34,400 in 1875, had more than doubled, to 73,094, by 1877, and then exploded with the return of prosperity, rising to 121,571 in 1881 and 207,574 in 1882, before falling back to 177,651 in 1883.
"Eleventh Annual Livestock Report, Kansas City Stock Yards for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1881," 33, 1880, 1.92, CB&Q, "Twelfth Annual Livestock Report, Kansas City Stock Yards for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1882," 33, 1870, 8.12, CB&Q.
Clay, My Life on the Range, 108-9.
Osgood, Day of the Cattleman, 86-90.
Statement Prepared by Theodore McMinn, Nimmo, Report, 96-97.
Statement Prepared by Mr. George B. Loving, Nimmo, Report, 105.
The Union Pacific reported 3,000 cars of livestock shipped in 1875.
Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, vol. 3, Agriculture (Washington D.C.: GPO, 1883), 141.
Report to the Stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad for the Year 1875 (Boston, 1876), 5.
Eugene Mather, "The Production and Marketing of Wyoming Beef Cattle," Economic Geography 26 (April 1950): 82.