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For Booth, Lavender, Great Persuader, 311.
Rothman misinterprets Sargent,
Rothman, Politics and Power, 201.
William Deverell, Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 29-31, 55, 59-60.
Ward M. McAfee, "A Constitutional History of Railroad Rate Regulation in California, 1879-1911," Pacific Historical Review 27 (Aug. 1968), 267.
Curtis Grassman, "Prologue to California Reform: The Democratic Impulse, 1886-1898," Pacific Historical Review 42 (November 1973), 520-521.
Sherrill to CPH, Sept. 6, 1886, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 43.
For near despair and then guarded hope over the California constitution, see Towne to CPH, May 8, 1879, May 17, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 17.
