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H. Craig Miner, The Corporation and the Indian: Tribal Sovereignty and Industrial Civilization in Indian Territory (Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1976), 44-46
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den Otter, Philosophy of Railways, 158.
Pierre Berton, The Impossible Railway (New York: Knopf, 1972), 8.
den Otter, Philosophy of Railways, 158.