Adams Diary, Dec. 23, 1888, Jan. 13, 1889, Adams Papers, r. 3.
Proceedings of the Conference between Presidents, 20-21, 25, 36, 49-51.
Keith L. Bryant Jr., History of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway (New York: Macmillan, 1974), 93-105, 123-41.
Adams to Dexter, Aug. 20, 1889, Adams to G. M. Lane, Aug. 29, 1889, UP, PO, OC, vol. 48, ser. 2, r. 43.
Bryant, Atchison, 143, 146-47, 150-51.