Chapter One
1. Frederic L. Paxson, History of the American Frontier 1763-1893 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924), 258-285.
2. Ray Allen Billington, Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (New York: Macmillan Company, 1967), 229-331.
3. Harry Sinclair Drago, Canal Days in America: The History and Romance of Old Towpaths and Waterways (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1972), 87, 103-205.
4. Billington, Westward Expansion, 332-333.
5. C. Hamilton Ellis, The Lore of the Train (New York: Madison Square Press, 1971), 50-51.
6. Alice E. Smith, The History of Wisconsin, Volume I: From Exploration to Statehood (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973), 178-180.
7. Ibid, 181-182.
8. Ibid., 162; see also Doty's letter to Moses Strong, December 25, 1827, Wisconsin Historical Collections XIII, “Papers of James Duane Doty,” Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI, 241.
9. Smith, History of Wisconsin, 196.
10. Ibid, 182-186.
11. Workers of the Writer's Program of the Work Projects Administration of the State of Wisconsin, The Story of Mineral Point: 1827-1941 (Mineral Point, WI: Mineral Point Historical Society, 1979), 21,33-34.
12. Moses M. Strong, History of the Territory of Wisconsin from 1836 to 1848 (Madison: Democrat Printing Co., 1885; Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2002), 175. Citations are to the 2002 edition of the book.
13.. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1851), 392.
14.. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River in 1820: Resumed and Completed, by the Discovery of Its Origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832 (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1855), 562.
15. Ibid, 562.
16.. Ibid, 563.
Chapter Two
1. Seymour Dunbar, A History of Travel in America (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1915), 725-737.
2. George Fiedler, Mineral Point: A History (Mineral Point, WI: Mineral Point Historical Society, 1962), 47.
3. Alice E. Smith, The History of Wisconsin, Volume I: From Exploration to Statehood (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973), 228-229.
4. Peter L. Scanlan, Prairie du Chien: French, British, American (Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing Co, 1937), 148-150.
5. Fiedler, Mineral Point, 53.
6. James L. Clark, Henry Dodge, Frontiersman (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1957), 2-8.
7. Green Bay Intelligencer, February 5, 1834.
8. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol. 1 (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 135.
9. Scanlan, Prairie du Chien, 199.
10. Leland L. Sage, A History of Iowa (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1974), 50-53.
11. Western Historical Company, History of Grant County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 480.
12. Joseph Schafer, Four Wisconsin Counties: Prairie and Forest (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1927), 47.
13. William R. Smith, Observations on the Wisconsin Territory: Chiefly on That Part Called the “Wisconsin Land District” (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838), 78-79.
14. Wisconsin Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, 200.
15. Carrie Cropley, Kenosha: From Pioneer Village to Modern City 1835-1935 (Kenosha, WI: Kenosha Historical Society, 1958), 2-7.
16. Increase Allan Lapham, Wisconsin: Its Geography and Topography, History, Geology, and Mineralogy: Together with Brief Sketches of Its Antiquities, Natural History, Soil, Productions, Population, and Government (Milwaukee, WI: I. A. Hopkins, 1846; New York: Arno Press, 1975), 169. Citations are from the 1975 edition of the book.
17. Alice E. Smith, History of Wisconsin, 189, 190.
18. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1851), 520.
19. Elizabeth T. Baird, O-de-jit-wa-win-ning, or, Contes du Temps Passe: The Memoirs of Elizabeth T. Baird (Green Bay, WI: Heritage Hill Foundation, 1998), 32.
20. Goodwin Berquist and Paul C. Bowers Jr., Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 2001), 1-5.
21. Ibid, 6-9.
22. Ibid., 13.
23. Ibid., 35.
24. Ibid., 38.
25. Ibid, 51-58.
26. Balthasar Meyer, History of Transportation in the United States before 1860 (Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1948), 496-498, 506, 510.
27. Dunbar, History of Travel, 267-268.
28. Rudolf A. Koss, Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI: Herald Press, 1871), 36, 37.
29. Willis F. Dunbar, Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerd-mann's Publishing Co, 1980), 243-249.
30. Moses M. Strong, History of the Territory of Wisconsin (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Co., 1885; Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2002), 194-197. Citations are to the 2002 edition of the book.
31. Joseph Schafer, The Wisconsin Lead Region (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1932), 61.
32. “Benjamin Hyde Edgerton: Wisconsin Pioneer,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 4, no. 3 (March 1921): 355.
33. Ibid, 354-358.
34. Balthasar Meyer, “A History of Early Railroad Legislation in Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 14 (1931): 209-211.
35. Alice E. Smith, History of Wisconsin, 235-238; Strong, History of Territory of Wisconsin, 207.
Chapter Three
1. Alice E. Smith, The History of Wisconsin, Volume I: From Exploration to Statehood (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973), 238-240.
2. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol. 1 (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 154.
3. Jack Rudolf, Birthplace of a Commonwealth: A Short History of Brown County, Wisconsin (Green Bay, WI: Brown County Historical Society, 1976), 15, 18.
4. Carrie Cropley, Kenosha: From Pioneer Village to Modern City 1835-1935 (Kenosha, WI: Kenosha Historical Society, 1958), 4.
5. Peter L. Scanlan, Prairie du Chien: French, British, American (Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing Co., 1937), 200.
6. Ibid, 199-200.
7. David V. Mollenhoff, Madison: A History of the Formative Years (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), 21.
8. Joseph Schafer, Four Wisconsin Counties: Prairie and Forest (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1927), 59, 60.
9. George Fiedler, Mineral Point: A History (Mineral Point, WI: Mineral Point Historical Society, 1962), 59.
10. Western Historical Company, The History of Grant County (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 537, 538.
11. Rudolf, Birthplace, 84-85.
12. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 1319, 1320.
13. Ruben G. Thwaites, The History of Winnebago County and the Fox River Valley 1541-1877 (Winnebago County, WI: Winnebago County, 1984), 20.
14. John Porter Bloom, ed., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Vol. XXVII (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969), 93.
15. Smith, History of Wisconsin, 251-254.
16. Mollenhoff, Madison, 22.
17. Milwaukee Advertiser, December 10, 1836.
18. Joseph Schafer, The Wisconsin Lead Region (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1932), 71,72.
19. Moses M. Strong, History of the Territory of Wisconsin (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Co, 1885; Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2002), 231. Citations are to the 2002 edition of the book.
20. Alice E. Smith, James Duane Doty: Frontier Promoter (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954), 185.
21. Strong, History of Territory of Wisconsin, 226.
22. Western Historical Company, History of Grant County, 537-538.
23. Balthasar Meyer, History of Transportation in the United States before 1860 (Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1948), 293-294.
24. Shafer, Wisconsin Lead Region, 69.
25. Frank H. Lyman, The City of Kenosha and Kenosha County, Wisconsin: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress, and Achievement (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1916), 150-153.
26. Shafer, Wisconsin Lead Region, 69-70.
27. Western Historical Company, History of Grant County, 43-44.
Chapter Four
1. Alice E. Smith, The History of Wisconsin, Volume I: From Exploration to Statehood (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973), 277.
2. Glyndon G. Van Deusen, The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1848 (New York: Harper, 1959), 117.
3. William R. Smith, Observations on the Wisconsin Territory: Chiefly on that Part Called the “Wisconsin Land District” (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838), 44, 45.
4. Goodwin Berquist and Paul C. Bowers Jr., Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 2001), 142.
5. John Porter Bloom, ed., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Vol. XXVIII (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969), 976-980.
6. William F. Raney, “The Building of Wisconsin Railroads,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 19, No. 6 (June 1936), 387.
7. Milwaukee Sentinel, September 18, 1838.
8. Bloom, Territorial Papers, 1150.
9. Increase Allan Lapham, Wisconsin: Its Geography and Topography, History, Geology, and Mineralogy: Together with Brief Sketches of Its Antiquities, Natural History, Soil, Productions, Population, and Government (Milwaukee: I. A. Hopkins, 1846; New York: Arno Press, 1975), 44, 45. Citations are to the 1975 edition of the book.
10. Milwaukee Grain Exchange, Commercial History of Milwaukee: Opening of the Chamber of Commerce: Addresses by Hon. Edward D. Holton (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1859), 254.
11. Lapham, Wisconsin, 45.
12. Bloom, Territorial Papers Vol. XXVII, 222.
13. William Fiske Brown, Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens, and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times up to Date (Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908), 529.
14. Alice E. Smith, History of Wisconsin, 326.
15. Lapham, Wisconsin, 113.
16. Bloom, Territorial Papers Vol. XXVII, 308-309.
17. Ibid., 112.
18. John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee (Chicago: Clarke Publishing Co., 1931), 345-346.
19. Balthazar Meyer, History of Transportation in the United States before 1860 (Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1948), 210.
20. Lapham, Wisconsin, 42-48.
21. Ibid., 445-446. Citations are to the 2002 edition of the book.
22. Moses M. Strong, History of the Territory of Wisconsin from 1836 to 1848 (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Co., 1885, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2002), 445.
23. Strong, History of the Territory of Wisconsin, 445-446.
24. Joseph Schafer, A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1922), 81-96.
25. Bayrd Still, Milwaukee: The History of a City (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1965), 182.
26. Milwaukee Grain Exchange, 261.
27. Balthazar Meyer, “A History of Early Railroad Legislation in Wisconsin,” Grant County Herald, September5, 1846.
28. Strong, History of the Territory of Wisconsin, 498.
29. Meyer, “A History,” 212.
30. Strong, History of the Territory of Wisconsin, 533-537.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, Acts Incorporating the Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi River Rail Road Company: Together with a Report of the Committee Relating to a Plan of Operations, Adopted by the Board of Directors, Milwaukee, May 19, 1849 (Milwaukee, WI: Sentinel and Gazette, 1849).
35. Alice E. Smith, History of Wisconsin, 445.
Chapter Five
1. Moses M. Strong, History of the Territory of Wisconsin from 1836 to 1848 (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Co., 1885), 591.
2. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Vol. 2, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 1322.
3. Ibid, 129-133.
4. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 26,27.
5. Ibid., 27.
6. Ibid, 648-679.
7. Ibid., 669.
8. Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, January 6, 1848.
9. Balthasar Meyer, History of Transportation in the United States before 1860 (Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1948), 299.
10. Ibid., 299.
11. Ibid., 304.
12. Milwaukee Grain Exchange, Commercial History of Milwaukee; Opening of the Chamber of Commerce; Addresses by Hon. Edward D. Holton (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1859), 254.
13. Ibid., 274.
14. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee Vol. 2, 1586.
15. Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, Acts Incorporating the Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi River Rail Road Company: Together with a Report of the Committee Relating to a Plan of Operations, Adopted by the Board of Directors, Milwaukee, May 19, 1849 (Milwaukee, WI: Sentinel and Gazette, 1849).
16. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Vol. 2, 999.
17. Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, Acts Incorporating.
18. Ibid.
Chapter Six
1. Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, First Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Rail-Road Company to the Stock-holders (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Co., 1850), 3.
2. Goodwin Berquist and Paul C. Bowers Jr., Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 2001), 6-9, 28, 29.
3. Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, First Annual Report, 3.
4. Paul R. Wolf and Russell C. Brinker, Elementary Surveying (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), 112.
5. Byron Kilbourn, Report Made by Byron Kilbourn (Milwaukee, WI: Free Democrat Print, 1853), 21.
6. Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, First Annual Report, 3; Kilbourn, Report Made by Byron Kilbourn, 21.
7. Milwaukee Daily Wisconsin, June 10, 1849.
8. Milwaukee Daily Sentinel and Gazette, October 26, 1849.
9. Milwaukee Daily Sentinel and Gazette, June 6, 1849.
10. Berquist and Bowers, Byron Kilbourn, 147.
11. Bayrd Still, Milwaukee: The History of a City (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1965), 170.
12. Kilbourn, Report Made by Byron Kilbourn, 21,22.
13. H. Roger Grant, The North Western: A History of the Chicago & North Western Railway System (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996), 10.
14. Wolf and Brinker, Elementary Surveying, 529-530, 567-569; R. M. Rylatt, Surveying the Canadian Pacific: Memoir of a Railroad Pioneer (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1991), forward, ix.
15. Kilbourn, Report Made by Byron Kilbourn, 21, 23.
16. Ibid, 21-24.
17. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume 2 (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 1072-1077; Alice E. Smith, George Smith's Money (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1966), 35-36; John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Chicago: Clarke Publishing Co, 1931), 190-192.
18. Waukesha Democrat, August 21, 1849.
19. Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, First Annual Report, 3.
20. Kilbourn, Report Made by Byron Kilbourn, 21-24.
Chapter Seven
1. Milwaukee Daily Wisconsin, Sept. 24, 1849.
2. Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, First Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Rail-Road Company to Stock-holders (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, 1850), 4-5.
3. Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, November 28, 1849.
4. Watertown (WI) Chronicle, December 5, 1849.
5. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 1323.
6. Milwaukee Grain Exchange, Commercial History of Milwaukee; Opening of the Chamber of Commerce; Addresses by Hon. Edward D. Holton, Vol. 4 (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1859), 275-277.
7. Waukesha (WI) Democrat, October 16, 1849.
8. Wisconsin Democrat, Oct. 16, 1849.
9. Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, October 31, 1849.
10. Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, December 18, 1849.
11. Ibid.
12. Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, October 31, 1849.
13. Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, November 17, 1849.
14. Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, November 28, 1849.
15. Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, First Annual Report, 7-8.
16. Anson Buttles Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI.
17. Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Mississippi Railroad Company, First Annual Report, 3.
18. Ibid., 5.
19. John E Stover, The Routledge Historical Atlas of American Railroads (New York: Routledge, 1999), 17.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid, 5-6.
22. Ibid., 6.
23. Waukesha (WI) Democrat, July 31, 1849.
24. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Vol. 2, 1017.
25. Alice E. Smith, George Smith's Money: A Scottish Investor in America (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1966), 11; Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Vol. 2, 1072.
26. Milwaukee Daily Wisconsin, Oct. 1, 1849.
27. Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, October 19, 1849.
Chapter Eight
1. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 28.
2. Ibid., 30, 31.
3. Goodwin Berquist and Paul C. Bowers Jr., Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 2001), 149.
4. Derleth, Milwaukee Road, 31.
5. Ibid., 25.
6. Edward D. Holton, Reply to the Address of the Farmers' General Home League by the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road Company (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Press and New Steam Printing, 1861), 43.
7. Milwaukee Grain Exchange, Commercial History of Milwaukee; Opening of the Chamber of Commerce; Addresses by Hon. Edward D. Holton, Vol. 4 (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1859), 275-277.
8. Holton, Reply to the Address, 43, 44.
9. Milwaukee Daily Wisconsin, June 14, 1850.
10. Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, June 22, 1850.
11. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Circular to Capitalists Relative to Milwaukee City Loan for the Benefit of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road Company: Together with the Acts and Ordinances Authorizing Said Loan (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel and Gazette Print, 1850), 24.
12. Berquist and Bowers, Byron Kilbourn, 151.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. C. H. Carruthers, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society's Bulletin Number 10 (Boston: Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 1925).
16. Ibid.
17. Derleth, Milwaukee Road, 32.
18. Milwaukee Daily Sentinel and Gazette, September 25, 1850.
19. John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Chicago: Clarke Publishing Co., 1931), 349.
20. Ibid., 350.
21. Milwaukee Daily Sentinel and Gazette, November 20, 1850.
22. Wisconsin Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 1334.
23. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Engineer's Report of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road for the Year 1850 (Milwaukee, WI: Sentinel and Gazette Steam Press, 1851), 15.
Chapter Nine
1. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Engineer's Report for the Year 1850 (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel and Gazette Print, 1850), 6.
2. Western Historical Company, The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 730-731.
3. The Anson Buttles Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI.
4. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Engineer's Report, 8.
5. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 1348.
6. John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Chicago: Clarke Publishing Co., 1931), 358-359.
7. Samuel Freeman, The Emigrant's Hand Book and Guide to Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI: Sentinel and Gazette Power Press Print, 1851; Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1968), 110. Page number refers to 1968 edition.
8. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 33.
9. Derleth, Milwaukee Road, 33-34.
10. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, 1331.
11. Milwaukee Daily Wisconsin, February 26, 1851.
12. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Reports of the Board of Directors and Engineer of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road, January, 1852 (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel Steam Power Press Print, 1852), 7-8.
13. Ibid., 9.
14. Derleth, Milwaukee Road, 35.
15. Ibid., 35-36.
16. Milwaukee Daily Sentinel and Gazette, May 10, 1851.
17. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, 1333.
Chapter Ten
1. Byron Kilbourn, Report Made by Byron Kilbourn (Milwaukee, WI: Free Democrat Print, 1853), 13-14.
2. Ibid., 3.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., 3-8, 11-15; August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Tears (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 39-42.
5. Derleth, Milwaukee Road, 29.
6. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Reports of the Board of Directors and Engineer of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road, January, 1852 (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel Steam Power Press Print, 1852), 29-30.
7. Ibid., 29.
8. Ibid., 11,20.
9. Western Historical Company, The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 741.
10. Ibid., 742.
11. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Reports, 11.
12. Ibid., 24.
13. Ibid, 12-17.
14. Dwight L. Agnew, ed., Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1960), 31.
15. Goodwin E Berquist and Paul C. Bowers Jr., Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 2001), 152-153.
16. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Reports, 4-5.
17. The Anson Buttles Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI.
18. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Reports, 4.
19. Ibid, 5-6.
20. Ibid., 34.
21. Kilbourn, Report, 4.
22. The Carlisle D. Cooke Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Madison, WI.
Chapter Eleven
1. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 43-44.
2. Byron Kilbourn, Report Made by Byron Kilbourn (Milwaukee, WI: Free Democrat Print, 1853), 9-10.
3. Dwight L. Agnew, ed., Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1960), 364.
4. Ibid, 28-29.
5. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Annual Report of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel Steam Power Press, 1853), 5.
6. Ibid, 5-6.
7. Western Historical Company, The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 737-738.
8. Derleth, Milwaukee Road, 49.
9. Alice E. Smith, ed., “Wisconsin's First Railroad: Linsley Letters, 1852,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 30, no. 3 (1917): 335-352.
10. Western Historical Company, History of Waukesha County, 741.
11. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Annual Report, 13.
12. Ibid.
13. Milwaukee Daily Sentinel and Gazette, October 3, 1852.
14. Old Settlers' Club of Milwaukee, Early Milwaukee: Papers from the Archives of the Old Settler's Club of Milwaukee County, 1830-1890 (Madison, WI: R. Hunt, 1977), 101-104.
15. Milton Bicentennial Committee, The Bicentennial History of Milton (Milton, WI: Milton Bicentennial Committee, 1977), 5.
16. Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, Annual Report, 8.
17. Ibid, 12-13.
Chapter Twelve
1. William Fiske Brown, Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times up to Date (Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co, 1908), 535-536.
2. Ibid., 539.
3. Ibid., 548
4. Western Historical Company, History of Rock County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879), 382.
5. Ibid, 382-383.
6. Brown, Rock County, 542.
7. Dwight L. Agnew, ed., Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1960), 236.
8. Robert J. Casey and W. A. S. Douglas, Pioneer Railroad: The Story of the Chicago and North Western System (New York: Whittlesey House, 1948), 78.
9. Western Historical Company, History of Rock County, 176.
10. Milwaukee Daily Sentinel & Gazette, May 12, 1851.
11. Western Historical Company, History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 425.
12. Ibid.
13. Stewart M. Rich, “Railroad Shops and Car Building in Fond du Lac,” Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 135 (Fall 1976): 9.
14. Western Historical Company, History of Rock County, 386.
15. Gustave W. Buchen, Historic Sheboygan County (Sheboygan, WI: Sheboygan Historical Society, 1944), 174.
Chapter Thirteen
1. Carrie Cropley, Kenosha: From Pioneer Village to Modern City 1835-1935 (Kenosha, WI: Kenosha County Historical Society, 1958), 27.
2. Herbert W. Rice, “Early History of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company” (PhD diss., State University of Iowa, n.d.), 71.
3. Ibid., 60.
4. Kenneth W. Duckett, Frontiersman of Fortune: Moses M. Strong of Mineral Point (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1955), 111.
5. Ibid., 113, 127.
6. Ibid., 114.
7. Rice, “Early History,” 61.
8. Ibid., 59.
9. Ibid., 77, 78.
10. Moses M. Strong Railroad Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society Archives. Letter from Kilbourn to Strong, August 9, 1852.
11. Duckett, Frontiersman of Fortune, 117.
12. Gustave W. Buchen, Historic Sheboygan County (Sheboygan, WI: Sheboygan Historical Society, 1944), 180.
13. Charter of the Southern Wisconsin Railroad Company (Wisconsin: Southern Wisconsin Railroad Company, 1852).
14. Western Historical Company, History of Grant County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 539.
15. Daniel J. Lanz, Railroads of Southern & Southwestern Wisconsin: Development to Decline (Blanchardville, WI: Ski Printers, 1985), 15.
Chapter Fourteen
1. Janesville (WI) Gazette, June 24, 1853.
2. John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Chicago: Clarke Publishing Co., 1931), 351.
3. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, 359-360.
4. Milton Bicentennial Committee, The Bicentennial History of Milton (Milton, WI: Milton Bicentennial Committee, 1977), 13.
5. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 51.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., 52.
8. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Fifth Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company, to the Stockholders: Together with the Reports of the Treasurer, Secretary, and Superintendent (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel Steam Power Press, 1854), 38.
9. Derleth, The Milwaukee Road, 51-52.
10. Western Historical Company, History of Rock County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879), 675.
11. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, State of Wisconsin 2001-2002 Blue Book (Madison, WI: Joint Committee on Legislative Organization, 2001), 707, 710.
12. Western Historical Company, History of Dane County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 608-609.
13. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Fifth Annual Report, 35.
14. Ibid., 40.
15. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, 358-359.
16. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Fifth Annual Report, 51.
17. Ibid.
18. Paul L. Behrens, The KD Line (Hebron, IL: Paul L. Behrens, 1986), 3-4.
19. Paul L. Behrens, Steam Trains to Geneva Lake (Hebron, IL: Paul L. Behrens, 2002), 22-23.
20. Western Historical Company, The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 392.
21. Richard N. Current, Wisconsin: A History (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001), 29.
22. Roger H. Grant, The North Western: A History of the Chicago & North Western Railway System (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996), 25.
23. William Fiske Brown, Rock County, Wisconsin (Chicago: C. E Cooper & Co., 1908) 545.
24. Alice E. Smith, James Duane Doty, Frontier Promoter (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954), 327, 328.
25. Western Historical Company, The History of Fond du Lac County Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 426.
26. W. A. Titus, “Three Pioneer Taverns,” Wisconsin Magazine of History Vol. 17, No. 2 (1933): 179.
27. Western Historical Company, History of Fond du Lac County, 426.
28. Daniel J. Lanz, Railroads of Southern & Southwestern Wisconsin: Development to Decline (Blanchardville, WI: Ski Printers, 1985), 15.
29. Western Historical Company, The History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 43.
30. Carrie Cropley, Kenosha: From Pioneer Village to Modern City 1835-1935 (Kenosha, WI: Kenosha County Historical Society, 1958), 27.
31. Bernard C. Korn, The Story of Bay View (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1980), 45.
32. Behrens, Steam Trains to Geneva Lake, 25-26.
33. Ibid., 26.
Chapter Fifteen
1. Barbara Houghton and Jane Nielsen Margaret Licht, City of the Second Lake: A History of McFar-land, Wisconsin (McFarland, WI: Community Publications, 1976), 18.
2. Western Historical Company, History of Dane County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 608-609.
3. Wisconsin State Journal, May 24, 1854.
4. David V. Mollenhoff, Madison: A History of the Formative Years (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1982), 51.
5. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 54
6. John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Chicago: Clarke Publishing Co., 1931), 357-358.
7. Alice E. Smith, James Duane Doty, Frontier Promoter (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954), 335.
8. Helen M. Bingham, History of Green County, Wisconsin (Milwaukee: Burdick & Armitage, 1877), 392.
9. Ibid.
10. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Sixth Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company, to the Stockholders: Together with the Reports of the Treasurer, Secretary, and Superintendent (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel Steam Power Press, 1855), 13-14.
11. Ibid, 8-9.
12. Ibid.
13. Daniel S. Durrie, A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin (Madison, WI: Atwood & Culver, 1874), 361-363.
14. Herbert W. Rice, “Early History of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company” (PhD diss., State University of Iowa, n.d.), 65.
15. Western Historical Company, The History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 424.
16. Rice, “Early History,” 72.
17. Wisconsin Railroad Commissioners Department, Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Wisconsin (Madison, WI: R. Bolens, 1854), 294.
18. Daniel J. Lanz, Railroads of Southern & Southwestern Wisconsin: Development to Decline (Blanchardville, WI: Ski Printers, 1985), 16.
19. Western Historical Company, History of Rock County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879), 382.
Chapter Sixteen
1. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Sixth Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company, to the Stockholders: Together with the Reports of the Treasurer, Secretary, and Superintendent (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel Steam Power Press, 1854), 12-13.
2. Allen Ruff, Black Earth, a History (Madison: Wisconsin Power and Light Co, 1992), 16-18.
3. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Seventh Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company, to the Stockholders (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel Steam Power Press, 1856), 41.
4. Ibid., 43.
5. Ibid, 42-43.
6. Ibid., 33.
7. Milwaukee Sentinel, August 17, 21, and 23, 1855.
8. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Seventh Annual Report, 16-17.
9. Ibid., 42.
10. Ibid.
11. Paul L. Behrens, “Galena Railroad Days at Beloit,” North Western Lines (Spring 1998): 26.
12. Ibid., 26.
13. Ibid.
14. Gustave W. Buchen, Historic Sheboygan County, rev. ed. (Sheboygan, WI: Sheboygan Historical Society, 1944), 184.
15. Ibid., 192.
16. Western Historical Company, History of Rock County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879), 386.
17. Ibid., 382.
18. Milwaukee Sentinel, May 18, 1855.
19. Carrie Cropley, Kenosha: From Pioneer Village to Modern City 1835-1935 (Kenosha, WI: Kenosha County Historical Society, 1958), 27.
20. John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishers, 1931), 333.
21. Bernard C. Korn, The Story of Bay View (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1980), 45.
22. Daniel J. Lanz, Railroads of Southern & Southwestern Wisconsin: Development to Decline (Blanchardville, WI: Ski Printers, 1985), 16.
23. Ibid., 17.
24. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 56.
25. P. L. Behrens, The KD Line (Hebron, IL: P. L. Behrens, 1986), 9.
26. Ibid.
27. John W. Cary, The Organization and History of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company (Milwaukee: Cramer, Aikens, and Cramer, 1892), 16.
28. Ibid., 16.
29. Behrens, “Galena Railroad Days at Beloit,” 24.
Chapter Seventeen
1. Paul L. Behrens, “Galena Railroad Days at Beloit,” North Western Lines (Spring 1998): 27.
2. Ibid.
3. David V. Mollenhoff, Madison: A History of the Formative Years (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), 75-76.
4. Ibid.
5. Behrens, “Galena Railroad Days,” 27.
6. Ibid.
7. John W. Cary, The Organization and History of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway (New York: Arno Press, 1981), 16.
8. Roger Noll, Beaver Dam: 1841-1941 (Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2003), 28.
9. Kilbourn (WI) City Mirror, July 1, 1856.
10. Cary, Organization and History, 17.
11. Ibid., 21.
12. Alice E. Smith, James Duane Doty: Frontier Promoter (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954), 337.
13. Geneva Lake Train Project, Tracks through Time: A Community Remembers (Lake Geneva, WI: The Project, 1989), 3.
14. Paul L. Behrens, Steam Trains to Geneva Lake (Hebron, IL: P. L. Behrens, 2002), 24.
15. Western Historical Company, History of Dane County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 905-906.
16. Ibid., 935.
17. Frank E. Wolf, ed., Mazomanie Landmarks: Village of Mazomanie, Dane County, Wisconsin (Mazomanie, WI: Mazomanie Historical Society, 1990), 4, 5.
18. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 60.
19. Western Historical Company, History of Grant County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881), 789.
20. Derleth, The Milwaukee Road, 62.
21. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Eighth Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company to the Stockholders (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel Steam Power Press, 1857), 29.
22. Ibid., 27, 28.
23. Ibid., 29.
24. Ibid., 15, 16.
25. Ibid., 30.
26. Ibid., 24.
27. Daniel J. Lanz, Railroads of Southern & Southwestern Wisconsin: Development to Decline (Blanchardville, WI: Ski Printers, 1985), 15.
28. Gustave W. Buchen, Historic Sheboygan County, rev. ed. (Sheboygan, WI: Sheboygan Historical Society, 1944), 185, 186.
29. Sheboygan (WI) Evergreen City Times, June 28, 1856.
30. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, vol. 2 (Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881), 397.
31. Ibid, 14-17.
32. Western Historical Company, History of Rock County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1879), 387.
33. Janesville (WI) Gazette, May 3, 1856.
34. Elvera K. Belden, History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, 1879 (Racine, WI: Racine County Historical Society, 1980), 177.
35. “National Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin,” Railroad History 135 (Fall 1976): 5.
36. Hannah Swart, Koshkonong Country: A History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin (Fort Atkinson, WI: W. D. Hoard & Sons, 1975), 135.
Chapter Eighteen
1. Alice E. Smith, James Duane Doty: Frontier Promoter (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954), 337.
2. Kenneth W. Duckett, Frontiersman of Fortune: Moses M. Strong of Mineral Point (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1955), 127.
3. John W. Cary The Organization and History of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company (Milwaukee, WI: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, 1892; New York: Arno Press, 1981), 10. Citations are to the 1981 edition of the book.
4. Smith, James Duane Doty, 337.
5. Duckett, Frontiersman of Fortune, 127.
6. Smith, James Duane Doty, 337.
7. Duckett, Frontiersman of Fortune, 128.
8. Ibid., 127.
9. Ibid., 337.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., 128.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., 129.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Bayrd Still, Milwaukee: The History of a City (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1948), 173.
18. Duckett, Frontiersman of Fortune, 129.
19. Ibid.
20. Robert S. Hunt, Law and Locomotives: The Impact of the Railroad on Wisconsin Law in the Nineteenth Century (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1958), 34.
21. Duckett, Frontiersman of Fortune, 130.
22. Smith, James Duane Doty, 342.
23. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, vol. I. (Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881), 1380.
Chapter Nineteen
1. Wisconsin Railroad Commissioners' Department, Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Wisconsin (Madison, WI: Atwood & Culver, 1874), 250, 251.
2. Richard N. Current, Wisconsin: A History, Vol. 2 (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001), 41.
3. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 62.
4. Current, Wisconsin, 237.
5. Paul L. Behrens, Steam Trains to Geneva Lake (Hebron, IL: P. L. Behrens, 2002), 26.
6. David V. Mollenhoff, Madison: A History of the Formative Years (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), 75-76.
7. Ibid.
8. Milwaukee Sentinel, April 23, 1857.
9. Daniel J. Lanz, Railroads of Southern and Southwestern Wisconsin: Development to Decline (Blanchardville, WI: Ski Printers, 1985), 18.
10. Ibid., 19.
11. John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee (Chicago: Clarke Publishing Co., 1931), 352.
12. Derleth, Milwaukee Road, 60.
13. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Ninth Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company to the Stockholders (Milwaukee, WI: Daily Sentinel Steam Press Print, 1858), 18.
14. Current, Wisconsin, 242.
15. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, 361.
16. Kenneth W. Duckett, Frontiersman of Fortune: Moses M. Strong of Mineral Point (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1955), 128-132.
17. Ibid.
18. John W. Cary, The Organization and History of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company (New York: Arno Press, 1981), 24.
19. Current, Wisconsin, 245, 246.
20. Robert S. Hunt, Law and Locomotives: The Impact of Railroads on Wisconsin Law in the Nineteenth Century (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1958), 15.
21. Cary, Organization and History, 22.
22. Robert J. Casey and W. A. S. Douglass, Pioneer Railroad: The Story of the Chicago and North Western System (New York: McGraw Hill, 1948), 79.
23. Charles T. Knudsen, Chicago and North Western Railway Steam Power 1848-1956 Classes A-Z (Chicago: Knudsen Publications, 1965), 10.
24. Ibid., 47.
25. Hannah Swart, Koshhonong Country: A History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin (Fort Atkinson, WI: W. D. Hoard & Sons, 1975), 141.
26. Ibid., 136.
27. Ibid., 141.
28. Ibid.
29. Monroe (WI) Sentinel, September 23, 1857.
30. Edmund C. Hamilton, The Story of Monroe: Its Past and Its Progress Toward the Present (Monroe, WI: Monroe Public Schools Print Shop, 1976), 43.
31. Lanz, Railroads of Southern & Southwestern Wisconsin, 10.
32. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Ninth Annual Report, 10.
33. Ibid., 20, 21.
34. Lee D. Dahl, “The Origins of Conflict between Southport and Racine,” in Kenosha Historical Sketches (Kenosha, WI: Kenosha County Historical Society, 1986), 61.
35. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Ninth Annual Report, 18.
36. Ibid., 7.
Chapter Twenty
1. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Tenth Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company to the Stockholders (Milwaukee, WI: Jermain & Brightman, 1859), 9.
2. Richard N. Current, Wisconsin: A History, Vol. 2 (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976), 237.
3. Ibid., 267.
4. Gordon Berquist and Paul C. Bowers Jr., Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 2001), 172.
5. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 85.
6. Ibid., 82.
7. Ibid., 84.
8. Ibid., 82.
9. Ibid., 85.
10. Ibid., 82.
11. Current, Wisconsin, 245, 246.
12. Western Historical Company, History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 585.
13. John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee (Chicago: Clarke Publishing Co., 1931), 367-369.
14. Albert H. Sanford and H. J. Hirshheimer, A History of La Crosse, Wisconsin 1841-1900 (La Crosse, WI: La Crosse Historical Society, 1951), 79.
15. Monroe County Wisconsin Bicentennial Committee, Monroe County, Wisconsin, Pictorial History 1976 (Tomah, WI: Tomah Journal Printing Co., 1976), 202.
16. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Tenth Annual Report, 11.
17. Western Historical Company, History of Rock County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1879), 191-192.
18. Monroe (WI) Sentinel, January 20, 1858.
19. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Tenth Annual Report 3-4.
20. Ferd Homme, Oak Opening: The Story of Stoughton (Stoughton, WI: Stoughton Centennial History Committee, 1947), 31.
21. Derleth, Milwaukee Road, 62-63.
22. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Tenth Annual Report, 19-20.
23. Ibid., 3.
24. Ibid, 3-8.
25. Ibid, 7, 8.
26. Daniel J. Lanz, Railroads of Southern and Southwestern Wisconsin: Development to Decline (Blanchardville, WI: Ski Printers, 1985), 20.
27. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Tenth Annual Report, 3-7.
28. Hannah Swart, Koshkonong Country: A History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin (Fort Atkinson, WI: W. D. Hoard & Sons, 1975), 137.
29. Milton Bicentennial Committee, The Bicentennial History of Milton (Milton, WI: Milton Bicentennial Committee, 1977), 91.
30. Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. Railroad History 135 (Fall 1976): 5.
31. D. C. Prescott, Early Day Railroading from Chicago (Chicago: David B. Clarkson Co., 1910), 51-52.
32. Current, Wisconsin, 244.
33. Ibid., 248; Robert S. Hunt, Law and Locomotives: The Impact of Railroads on Wisconsin Law in the Nine-teenth Century (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1958), 48, 49.
34. Dale E. Treleven, “Railroads, Elevators, and Grain Dealers: The Genesis of Antimonopolism in Milwaukee,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 52, no. 3 (1969): 206.
35. Bayrd Still, Milwaukee: The History of a City (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1948), 175.
36. Paul L. Behrens, Steam Trains to Geneva Lake (Hebron, IL: P. L. Behrens, 2002), 26.
37. Current, Wisconsin, 237.
Chapter Twenty-One
1. John W. Carey, The Organization and History of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company (Milwaukee, WI: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, 1892), 11-12.
2. D. C. Prescott, Early Day Railroading from Chicago (Chicago: David B. Clarkson Co., 1910), 12.
3. Ibid, 37-38.
4. Hannah Swart, Koshkonong Country: A History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin (Fort Atkinson, WI: W. D. Hoard & Sons, 1975), 144.
5. Western Historical Company, History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 427.
6. Bayrd Still, Milwaukee: The History of a City (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1965), 175.
7. Prairie du Chien (WI) Leader, December 8, 1859.
8. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Eleventh Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company to the Stockholders (Milwaukee, WI: Daily News Book and Job Steam Printing Office, 1860), 17.
9. Donald J. Kabitzke, North Prairie: An Historic Wisconsin Village, 1834-1950 (Milwaukee, WI: D.J. Kabitzke, 1983), 27.
10. Gustav W. Buchen, Historic Sheboygan County (Sheboygan, WI: Sheboygan County Historical Society, 1976), 187.
11. William J. Park & Co., ed., Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns (Madison, WI: W. J. Park &Co., 1877), 318, 319.
12. Paul L. Behrens, The KD Line (Hebron, IL: Paul Behrens Publishing, 1986), 20.
13. Ibid, 20-21.
14. Fort Atkinson (WI) Standard, October 4, 1859.
15. Western Historical Company, History of Rock County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879), 386.
16. Swart, Koshkonong Country, 144.
17. Richard N. Current, The History of Wisconsin, Volume II: The Civil War Era (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976), 35.
18. Swart, Koshkonong Country, 145.
Chapter Twenty-two
1. Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company, Eleventh Annual Report of the Directors of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company to the Stockholders (Milwaukee, WI: Daily News Book and Job Steam Printing Office, 1860), 18-19.
2. Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, Plan for the Reorganization of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, 1860), 1.
3. Ibid, 1-2.
4. Ibid., 9.
5. August Derleth, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948), 65.
6. Isaac Seymour, To the Mortgage Bondholders of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company, 1860), 1-2.
7. Ibid.
8. John W. Cary The Organization and History of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company (Milwaukee, WI: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, 1892), 85.
9. Derleth, Milwaukee Road, 66.
10. Ibid.
11. Paul L. Behrens, Steam Trains to Geneva Lake (Hebron, IL: P. L. Behrens, 2002), 28.
12. Ibid., 29.
13. Robert J. Casey and W. A. S. Douglas, Pioneer Railroad (New York: Whittlesey House, 1948), 81.
14. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, vol. II (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 1330.
15. Michael J. Goc and Geraldine N. Driscoll, Winneconne: History's Crossing Place (Winneconne, WI: New Past Press, 1987), 11.
16. Carrie Cropley Kenosha: From Pioneer Village to Modern City, 1835-1935 (Kenosha, WI: Kenosha County Historical Society, 1958), 29.
17. Derleth, Milwaukee Road, 78.
18. Ibid, 74-77, 79.
19. Richard N. Current, The History of Wisconsin, Volume II: The Civil War Era (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976), 241.
20. Gustav W. Buchen, Historic Sheboygan County (Sheboygan, WI: Sheboygan County Historical Society, 1976), 192.
Epilogue
1. Robert J. Casey and W. A. S. Douglas, Pioneer Railroad (New York: Whittlesey House, 1948), 128.
2. John E Stover, The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads (New York and London: Rout-ledge, 1999), 100-101.
3. Dwight L. Agnew, ed., Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1960), 198.
4. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881), 1350.
5. Ibid., 1331.
6. Janesville (WI) Gazette, March 22, 1921.
7. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, 1352.
8. Ibid., 1348.
9. William Fiske Brown, ed., Rock County, Wisconsin (Chicago: C. E Cooper & Co., 1908), 192-195.
10. Brown, Rock County, 548.
11. Lawrence A Curtis, “The Previous History of El Paso and South-Western No. 1 and Something of Her Contemporaries on the Saint Paul,” Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 15 (1927): 60, 62.
12. Western Historical Company, History of Milwaukee, 1379.
13. Monroe County Wisconsin Bicentennial Committee, Monroe County, Wisconsin: Pictorial History, 1976 (Tomah, WI: Tomah Journal Print, 1976), 202.