Pinkerton, His Personal Record, 24; Testimony of J. H. Strobridge, Palace Hotel, SF, Tuesday Aug. 9, 1887, PRC, 6: 3107, corrected, 3139-40.
Eric Arnesen, "'Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down': The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920," American Historical Review 99 (Dec. 1994): 1607.
Testimony of J. H. Strobridge, Aug. 9, 1887, PRC, 6:3107, corrected, 3139-40.
Chew, Nameless Builders, 42-45, says that the maximum number of Chinese workers in the peak month was 5,190.
Peck, Reinventing Free Labor, 51.
Moon-Ho Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2006), 4-10, 115-16, 121, 138-45.
Connecticut Post, Oct. 6, 1883, Scrapbook of Notices of the Northern Pacific Railroad Excursion, Aug. 29 - Sept. 3, 1883, box 51, 159, Villard Papers.