Albert Fink, Testimony of Albert Fink before the Select Committee on Interstate Commerce of the United States Senate . . . New York, May 21, 1885 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1885), 22.
"An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes,"; Act of July 1, 1862, Statutes at Large 12 (1863): 489.
Klein, Union Pacific, 22-67
Bain, Empire Express, 153-56.
Overton, Perkins/Budd, xx.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 148, 153.