Clark told Buchanan, who believed him that he had not ordered the cuts, a lie, which was one of the many things that enraged Adams.
Weir, Knights Unhorsed, 76-77.
Buchanan, Labor Agitator, 70-77, 82-99.
Maury Klein, Union Pacific, vol. 1, Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983), 453-54.
