Cost of a one-way railway ticket

From: "Susan Marlow" susankmarlow@gmail.com

I'm a children's author and write historical fiction set in California. I need to know how much a one-way railway ticket from Sacramento, CA, to Kansas City, MO, in the mid-1870s would have cost. It doesn't have to be an exact price. Just a general idea. ...

—Susan K. Marlow