Peck, Reinventing Free Labor, is a superb account of contract labor.
Testimony of John C. Stubbs, Aug. 12, 1887, PRC, 6:3314-15.
Pierre Berton, The Impossible Railway: The Building of the Canadian Pacific - A Triumphant Saga of Exploration, Politics, High Finance & Adventure (New York: Knopf, 1972), 373-77.
Tzu-kuei Yen, "Chinese Workers and the First Transcontinental Railroad of the United States of America" (Ph.D. diss., St. Johns Univ., 1976), 36.
Van Horne to Harry Abbott, Sept. 21, 1883, LB, 3(1), vol. 1, Van Horne LB.
Van Horne to J. H. Pope, Sept. 10, 1883, LB, 2(2) 1883, vol. 1, Van Horne LB.
W. C. Van Horne to J. Egan, June 20, 1883, Van Horne to Editor, Toronto Globe, July 16, 1883, both in LB, 2(1), vol. 1, Van Horne LB.
William John Pinkerton, His Personal Record: Stories of Railroad Life (Kansas City: Pinkerton Publishing Company, 1904), 21.
Towne to CPH, April 29, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 17.