Official History puts the strikers at 9,000. At places like Kansas City or Omaha, where the Missouri Pacific and the Union Pacific connected, Union Pacific workers sympathized with the strike but stayed neutral.
Allen, Great Southwest Strike, 71.
Official History, 21.
Allen, Great Southwest Strike, 71-91.
Official History, 7, 25, 28-35, 43-55, 57-62.
Buchanan, Labor Agitator, 222-27, 311-12.
Michael Biggs, "Strikes as Sequences of Interaction: The American Strike Wave of 1886," Social Science History 26 (2002): 585-87, 589, 591-92.
Lee, Farmers vs. Wage Earners, 54-55.
Allen, Great Southwest Strike, 123.
Green, Death in the Haymarket, 145-48, 154-55, 168-71, 174-273.
Biggs, Strikes as Sequences, 605.