The best account is in Bain, Empire Express, 89-93.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 95.
Bain, Empire Express, 91-93.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 97, 121.
Bain, Empire Express, 142.
Report of the Commission and of the Minority Commissioner of the United States Pacific Railway Commission . . . (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1887), 71.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 140.
Klein, Union Pacific, 16, 23-24
For Forbes, see John L. Larson, Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age, expanded Edition (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001), particularly 53-109.
Supple and Johnson, Boston Capitalists, 197-98.
Richard Overton, Perkins/Budd: Railway Statesmen of the Burlington (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982), 3.