Voss, Making of American Exceptionalism, 73.
Pinkerton, His Personal Record, 73.
The Knights and Election, Union Pacific Employes Magazine, Nov. 1886, p. 292.
W. P. Clough to T. F. Oakes, Feb. 13, 1885, 137 H.4.6 (F), 3A 2 10 F, NP.
Taken together, all, not just political, passes amounted to over $20,000 a week on the Union Pacific in 1884.
Adams to CPH, UP, PO, OC, vol. 23, ser. 2, r. 3.
Adams to S. Dillon, Jan. 15, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 27, ser. 2, r. 23.
The correspondence of John Boyd to Collis Huntington is full of requests for and receipts of passes.
Boyd to CPH, Jan. 31, 1891, Boyd to I.E. Gates, May 11, 1891, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 49.
Adams to Callaway, March 9, 1887, UP, PO, OC v. 39, ser. 1, r. 34.
T.F. Oakes to R. Harris, Feb. 2, 1885, 137 H.4.6 (F), 3A 2 10 F, NPR.
Huntington thought it more of a commercial committee than a Texas and Pacific Committee.
Chauncey, Black to Randall, May 12, 1877, Correspondence, 6 May to 5 June 1877, Box 34, Randall Papers.
House, "Speakership Contest," 260-274.
Huntington to Hopkins, Dec. 2, 1875, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 4: 418.
Boyd to Huntington, Dec. 25, 1875 CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 9.