Ficker, Economic Backwardness, 279.
Adams to Dillon, June 24, 1895, UP, PO, OC, vol. 29, ser. 2, r. 24.
Report of the U.S. Congress Senate Select Committee on Interstate Commerce, 49th Cong., 1st sess. (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1886), 10.
Poor, Manual, 1892, xxii.
The transcontinental traffic was the most expensive to secure and the least remunerative of all traffic for the Union Pacific.
Poor, Manual, 1890, xv.
I have combined the southwestern and northwestern groups in Poor's Manual to get all the roads between the Mississippi and the Rockies, again except Louisiana.
Hart, Empire and Revolution, 122.
For Kansas regions, see Scott G. McNall, The Road to Rebellion: Class Formation and Kansas Populism, 1885-1890 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988), 70-79.
See Map B below, and Spatial History Project website, Stanford Univ.