Williams, Democratic Party and California Politics, 31-41.
Ward Merner McAfee, "Local Interests and Railroad Regulation in Nineteenth Century California," sic (Ph.D. Dissertation: Stanford University, 1965), 162-168.
William A. Bullough, "Hannibal versus the Blind Boss: The "Junta," Chris Buckley, and Democratic Reform Politics in San Francisco," The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 46, No. 2 (May, 1977), 181-206.
Williams doesn't believe corruption played a role, but Ward McAfee presents a very strong case that it did.
Williams, Democratic Party and California Politics, 40-46.
Ward McAfee, Local Interests and Railroad Regulation in Nineteenth Century California (Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford, 1965), 164-168.
"Railroad Pools: The Atlantic and Pacific and the Transcontinental Association," Los Angeles Times, Dec. 12, 1885, p. 1.
Klein, Union Pacific, 423-74.
Kimball to S. R. Callaway, March 22, 1886, enclosure with Callaway to Adams, March 23, 1886, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 34, f. 2: Callaway.