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- ↑ https://www.gendisasters.com/west-virginia/17883/ingleside-wv-train-collision-may-1927 Ingleside, WV Train Collision, May 1927
- ↑ Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong by Norm Cohen, David Cohen (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2000)
- ↑ Johnson, David W. "Did Bristol Sessions Produce Country Music's 'Big Bang'?" Knight Ridder Tribune News Service: 1 July 2002.