Wyoming Railroads Resources

Stephen E. Ambrose, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), Chapter 12

Charlie Peterson and the Laramie Plains Museum, Laramie: Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007)

Mary Kay Mason, Book Project Director, Laramie, Gem City of the Plains (Curtis Media Corporation, 1987)

Lola M. Homsher, The History of Albany County, Wyoming to 1880 (Lusk, Wyoming: Privately Published, 1965)

Wyoming State Archives, Museums, and Historical Dept., Annals of Wyoming (Cheyenne: Wyoming Historical Department, 1939)

T. A. Larson, History of Wyoming (University of Nebraska Press, 1978)

Wyoming State Historical Society, accessed August 2014, www.wyshs.org

Wyoming State Archives, accessed February 2014 – October 2014, wyoarchives.state.wy.us

Union Pacific Railroad Museum, accessed February 2014 – June 2014, http://www.uprrmuseum.org/museum/exhibits/about_transcontinental.shtml

American Heritage Center (at the U. of Wyoming), accessed January 2014 – November 2014, www.uwyo.edu/ahc, http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/collections/digital.html 

Wyoming Tales and Trails, accessed February 2014 – November 2014, www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com

Jerry Hanson, Interviews by Deborah Linden. In Person. Laramie, Wyoming: Laramie Plains Museum, January 2014 – October 2014

Phil Roberts, Interview by Deborah Linden. In Person. Laramie Wyoming, April 2014

Kim Viner, Interviews by Deborah Linden. In Person. Laramie, Wyoming, April 2014, July 2014

Wyoming Newspaper Project http://pluto.wyo.gov/awweb/main.jsp?smd=2&nid=$3/357931&hnt=browse5,browse8

F.K. Freeman, Frontier Index, (Laramie, Dakota Territory, Freeman and Company), April 2, 1868 – July 21, 1868
Frontier Index EditionsApril 21 & 28, 1868
Frontier Index EditionsMay 5, 19, 22, 26 &29, 1868
Frontier Index Editions – June 2, 5, 9, 12, 16, 19, 23, 26 & 30, 1868
Frontier Index Editions – July 3, 7 & 21, 1868

J.M.Wilson, Union Pacific Railroad and Credit Mobilier (Washington, D.C.: U.S. House of Representatives, March 3,1873)