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ARTICLES
Barnes, Lela, ed. “Letters of Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, 1854–1859.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 6 (August 1937): 241–94.
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Crump, Spencer. “Western Pacific: The Railroad That Was Built Too Late.” Railway History Quarterly 1, no. 1 (January 1963): 1–48.
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Farley, Alan W. “Samuel Hallett and the Union Pacific Railway Company in Kansas.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 25, no. 1 (Spring 1959): 1–16.
Farnham, Wallace D. “The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.” Nebraska History 43 (September 1962): 141–67.
———. “The Weakened Spring of Government.” American Historical Review 67 (April 1963): 662–80.
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Hietter, Paul T. “ ‘No Better Than Murderers’: The 1889 Canyon Diablo Train Robbery and the Death Penalty in Arizona Territory.” Journal of Arizona History 47, no. 3 (Autumn 2006): 273–98.
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Pletcher, David M. “The Building of the Mexican Railway.” Hispanic American Historical Review 30, no. 1 (February 1950): 26–62.
———. “General William S. Rosecrans and the Mexican Transcontinental Railroad Project.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 38 (March 1952): 657–78.
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———. “The Birth of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad—Concluded.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 35, no. 3 (Fall 1968): 325–56.
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Butterfield Overland Mail–The Pinery. Guadalupe Mountains National Park brochure, 1988.
Emory, W. H. Notes on a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. 30th Cong., 1st sess, Ex. Doc. 41.
———. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. 34th Cong., 1st sess., H.R. Exec. Doc. 135.
Garrison, James, et al. Transcontinental Railroading in Arizona, 1878–1940: A Component of the Arizona Historic Preservation Plan. Prepared for the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, December 1989, by Janus Associates, Phoenix.
Reports of the Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 33rd Cong., 2nd sess., H.R. Ex. Doc. 91 (cited as Pacific Railroad Reports).
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (cited as Official Records).
PERSONAL PAPERS AND CORPORATE RECORDS
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver; cited as Santa Fe Collection by box and file folder (FF).
William A. Bell Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver; cited as Bell Collection by box and file folder.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver; cited as Denver and Rio Grande Collection by box and file folder.
John Evans Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver; cited as Evans Collection by box and file folder.
Timothy Hopkins Transportation Collection, Green Library, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California.
Collis P. Huntington Papers, 1856–1901, microfilm edition in Western History Department, Denver Public Library, Denver; cited as Huntington Papers by series and reel number.
David Sievert Lavender Papers, Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder.
William Jackson Palmer Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver; cited as Palmer Collection by box and file folder.
Robert F. Weitbrec Collection, Stephen H. Hart Library, Colorado Historical Society, Denver.
UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATIONS AND PAPERS
Benson, T. Lloyd, and Trina Rossman. “Re-assessing Tom Scott, the ‘Railroad Prince.’ ” A paper given for the Mid-America Conference on History, Furman University, September 16, 1995.
Storey, Britt Allan. “William Jackson Palmer: A Biography.” Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1968.
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