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= 199 = From Alexander Gardner to John R. Charlton 1. Robert Taft, “A Photographic History of Early Kansas,” Kansas Historical Quarterly 3 (February 1934): 3–14. 2. See William A. Bell, New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean During 1867–8 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1869). 3. Robert Taft, Photography and the American Scene: A Social History, 1838–1889 (New York: MacMillan Co., 1938). 4. Taft, “Photographic History,” 3–4. 5. Robert Taft, Across the Years on Mount Oread, 1866–1941 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1941), 163. 6. Sunflower Journeys, “Changing Landscapes: The Photographs of Alexander Gardner,” episode #132, March 31, 1994. http://ktwu.washburn.edu/journeys/scripts/708a.html (transcript accessed on 22 March 2006). “The New Pioneer of Population and Settlement” 1. In 1855 this company began as the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company. In 1863, John C. Fremont and Samuel Hallett obtained control of the company and changed its name to the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division. In 1868, under new ownership, the name was changed again to the Kansas Pacific Railway Company. In 1880, Jay Gould consolidated the Kansas Pacific Railway Company and the Union Pacific Railroad Company and renamed the operation the Union Pacific Railway Company. Good introductions to the early history of this company are David G. Taylor, “Thomas Ewing, Jr., and the Origins of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company,” Kansas Historical Quarterly 42 (Summer 1976): 155–79; Alan W. Farley, “Samuel Hallett and the Union Pacific Railway Company in Kansas,” Kansas Historical Quarterly 25 (Spring 1959): 1–16; Richard Overton, “Thomas C. Durant and the Union Pacific, Eastern Division, 1864–1866,” Kansas Quarterly 2 (Summer 1970): 58–65; and Charles Edgar Ames, Pioneering the Union Pacific: A Reappraisal of the Builders of the Railroad (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969). 2. “Speech of Senator Yates, of Illinois,” in Senatorial Excursion Party over the Union Pacific Railway, E. D., Speeches of Senators Yates, Cattell, Chandler, Howe and Trumbull; Hon. J. aJ. Creswell, Hon. John Covode, M.C., and Hon. Wm. M. McPherson, on The Pacific Rail Road Question (St. Louis, MO: S. Levison, Printer, 1867), 15. 3. New York Daily Tribune, June 4, 1863, Clipping Files, Manuscript Division, Kansas State Historical Society. NOTES = 199 = NOTES = 200 4. George T. Pierce, “The Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division,” American Railroad Journal (186?), Clipping Files, Manuscript Division, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. 5. Abraham Lincoln long had close connections with railroad companies, and he understood their operations well. See William D. Beard, “‘I Have Labored to Find the Law’: Abraham Lincoln for the Alton and Sangamon Railroad,” Illinois Historical Journal 85, no. 4 (1992): 209–20; David A. Pfeiffer, “Lincoln for the Defense: Railroads, Steamboats and the Rock Island Bridge,” Railroad History (Spring/Summer 2009): 48–55; and Brian Steenbergen, “The Illinois Central Railroad Issues in the 1858 LincolnDouglas Senatorial Campaign,” Lincoln Herald 113 (Spring 2011): 30–37. 6. William G. Thomas’s The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011) highlights a central concept in this piece: that railroad companies would “control and build global networks that advanced moral progress” (11). Among earlier works that paved a way for me to understand railroad building are Charles Glaab, Kansas City and the Railroads: Community Policy in the Growth of a Regional Metropolis (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993); and John R. Stilgoe, Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983). 7. “Speech of the Honorable B. H. Brewster,” in Senatorial Excursion Party, 52. 8. Nelson H. Loomis, “Kansas and the Union Pacific,” Twenty-sixth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka, KS: State Printing Office, 1929), 99, Archives Division, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. 9. “Speech of the Honorable John A. J. Creswell, of Maryland,” in Senatorial Excursion Party, 31. 10. See http://esd.ny.gov/nysdatacenter/data/population _housing/countypophistory.pdf (accessed July 15, 2013). 11. James Belich, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783–1939 (New York: University of Oxford Press, 2009), 9. 12. Clive Ponting, A Green History of the World: The Environmental Collapse of Great Civilizations (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991), 301–9. 13. William A. Bell, New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in the Survey for the...
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