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Best, Gerald M., Iron Horses to Promontory, Golden West Books, 1969.

Combs, Barry B., Westward to Promontory: Building the Union Pacific Across the Plains and Mountains, New York: Garland Books, 1969.

Dufwa, Thamar E., Transcontinental Railroad Legislation, 1835-1862, New York: Arno Press, 1981.

Galloway, John Debo, The First Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific, Union Pacific, New York: Arno Press, 1981.

Griswold, Wesley, S., A Work of Giants: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad, London: F. Muller, 1963.

Howard, Robert West, The Great Iron Trail; The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad, NY, Putnam, 1962.

Klein, Maury, Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893, Garden City, New York:Doubleday & Co., Inc. 1987.

Lewty, Peter J., Across the Columbia Plain: Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest, 1885-1893, Pullman, Washington State University Press, 1995.

Lum Mccunn, Ruthanne, An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America,

McCague, James, Moguls and Iron Men; The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad, New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

Painter, Gerald L., The Tie That Binds: Grenville M. Dodge and the Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad, Northfield, VT:Norwich University Press, 1985.

Williams, John Hoyt, A Great Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad, New York,: Times Books, 1988.