L. U. Reavis, An International Railway to the City of Mexico: An Address by L. U. Reavis (St. Louis: Printed by Woodward, Tiernan & Hale, 1879), in Pamphlets, Railroads of Mexico, vol. 2, no. 10.
For policies during the Civil War, Heather Cox Richardson, The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), 170-72., 175, 178-180.
Dodge to Scott, Jan. 12, 1874, Letterbooks, Texas & Pacific Railroad, Box 160, Dodge Papers.
George Earl Church to Plumb, June 11, 1872, box 2, f. 21, Plumb Papers.
John S. Fisher, A Builder of the West: The Life of William Jackson Palmer (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1939), 210, 217.
Kingsley, South by West 183, 225-26, and 207-31 in general.