Central Pacific Railroad/Bibliography

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Bibliography

• Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It In The World; The men who built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. (2000) ISBN 0-684-84609-8
• Bain, David Haward. Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (2000)
• Cooper, Bruce C., "Riding the Transcontinental Rails: Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad 1865-1881" (2005), Polyglot Press, Philadelphia ISBN 1-4115-9993-4
• Cerinda W. Evans; Collis Potter Huntington Vol. 1 Mariners Museum, 1954
• Fleisig, Heywood. "The Central Pacific Railroad and the Railroad Land Grant Controversy" Journal of Economic History 1975 35(3): 552-566. ISSN 0022-0507 in JSTOR.
• John Debo Galloway; The First Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific, Union Pacific (1950)
• Kraus, George. "Chinese Laborers and the Construction of the Central Pacific." Utah Historical Quarterly 1969 37(1): 41-57. ISSN 0042-143X.
• Lake, Holly. "Construction of the CPRR: Chinese Immigrant Contribution" Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 1994 94(4): 188-199. ISSN 0160-9602
• Mercer, Lloyd J. "Rates of Return for Land-grant Railroads: the Central Pacific System" Journal of Economic History 1970 30(3): 602-626. ISSN 0022-0507 in JSTOR.
• Mercer, Lloyd J. "Land Grants to American Railroads: Social Cost or Social Benefit?" Business History Review 1969 43(2): 134-151. ISSN 0007-6805 Fulltext in Jstor.
• Ong, Paul M. "The Central Pacific Railroad and Exploitation of Chinese Labor." Journal of Ethnic Studies 1985 13(2): 119-124. ISSN 0091-3219.
• Sabin, Edwin Legrand. Building the Pacific Railway: The Construction-story of America's First Iron Thoroughfare (1919) 317 pages online at books.google.com
• Saxton, Alexander. "The Army of Canton in the High Sierra" Pacific Historical Review 1966 35(2): 141-151. ISSN 0030-8684 on Chinese workers. in JSTOR
• Tutorow, Norman E. "Stanford's Responses to Competition: Rhetoric Versus Reality." Southern California Quarterly 1970 52(3): 231-247. ISSN 0038-3929
• White, Richard, "Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental Railroads in the Gilded Age". The Journal of American History 90.1 (2003)
• Williams, John Hoyt. A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad (1988)

Documentary

• Goodwin, Neil, prod. The Iron Road. Video. Color. 58min. (American Experience series.) Peace River Films, 1990. Distrib. by PBS Video

Primary sources

• George A. Crofutt. Crofutt's Trans-continental Tourist's Guide (1875) online at books.google.com
• Railroad Communication with the Pacific, with an Account of the Central Pacific Railroad, (1867) financial reports and prospectus from Fisk & Hatch. online at books.google.com