The most succinct account of these maneuvers is in Supple and Johnson, Boston Capitalists, 201-215.
For more detail see Klein, Union Pacific, 67-68, 80-83, 108-115, 122-28.
Johnson and Supple, Boston Capitalists, 209-10.
Testimony of Cornelius S. Bushnell, Report of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives, Appointed under the Resolution of January 6, 1873. To Make Inquiry in Relation to the Affairs of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Credit Mobilier of America and Other Matters . . . , 42nd Cong., 3d sess., 1873, H. Rept. 78, pp. 40-42.
Bain, Empire Express, 666-69.
Keith L. Bryant Jr., History of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway (New York: Macmillan, 1974), 2-3