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- 1 2 3 4 5 "Died As Day Dawned. External Peace Spreads Her Wings Over the Career of Senator Buck. He Passed Away As If Asleep. Conscious Never Returned From the Moment of the Disaster. His Life Was A Busy One. How He Aided in Building Up the Fruit Industry of California" . Oakland Tribune. June 4, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved May 6, 2016– via Newspapers.com.
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- ↑ "Died As Day Dawned". Oakland Tribune. 1895-06-04. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ↑ "Decker Peach". Visalia Times-Delta. 1893-09-22. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
- ↑ "By-laws of the "California fruit union" San Francisco December 15th, 1885". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ↑ "Russian Thistle". The Sacramento Bee. 1895-11-07. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ↑ "Napa County Reporter 07 Sep 1888, page 1". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
- ↑ "The Late Senator Buck. Vacaville Lodge of the Masons Honors His Memory" . The San Francisco Call. June 16, 1895. p. 24. Retrieved May 5, 2016– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "L.W. Buck's Pen Name". The San Francisco Call. 1895-06-10. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ↑ Ronald H., Limbaugh (1978). Vacaville, The Heritage of a California Community. United States of America: Vacaville City Council. p. 96.
- ↑ "L. W. Buck Cart Crash". San Francisco Chronicle. 1895-06-03. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-11-04.