John Hudson, Plains Country Towns (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1985), 54-55, 58.
Van Horne to E. T. Talbot, Railway Age, Nov. 26, 1883, Van Horne LB, no. 3(2):666-84, vol. 1.
A. N. Towne to Hopkins, Nov. 13, 1876, Towne to Crocker, Nov. 21, 1876, LB, 12:169, box 25, Hopkins Collection.
Hudson, Plains Country Towns, 68-69.
Walter Vaughan, The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne (New York: Century, 1920), 21.
Van Horne to Sykes, 7 April 1885, Van Horne LB, 11:1-2, vol. 2.
Van Horne to Purvis, July 14, 1884, Van Horne LB, 6:90110, vol. 2.
Van Horne to Editor of the Manitoba Free Press, Dec. 24, 1883, Van Horne LB, 4:10-26, vol. 1.
Van Horne to Stephen, Jan. 14, 1884, Van Horne LB, 4:283-92, vol. 1.
Adams to Callaway, May 22, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 38, ser. 2, r. 33.
A. N. Towne to Leland Stanford, July 8, 1887, PRC, 5:2545.