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A DOCTOR'S GOLD RUSH JOURNEY TO
CALIFORNIA
Necia Dixon Liles, editor. Foreword by J. S.
Halliday.
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BOUND FOR IDAHO: The 1864 Trail Journal of Julius
Merrill
Irving R. Merrill, editor (OCTA
member) More Info in
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CALIFORNIA WAGON TRAIN LISTS: Vol. I,
April 5, 1849 to October 20, 1852
Louis J. Rasmussen More Info in |
CAPTIVE OF THE CHEYENNE:
The Story of Nancy Jane Morton and the Plum
Creek Massacre
Russ Czaplewski
Paperback..........#1250..........$12.95
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 This book details the
events leading up to the Plum Creek Massacre, the attack itself and Mrs.
Morton's six month ordeal at the hands of the Cheyenne. Follow her day to
day account of life with the Indians and her struggle to survive. Witness
the courage of a 19-year-old woman as she faces tremendous odds and survives
to tell the story. 562
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CHEROKEE
TRAIL DIARIES Vol. 1&2
Patricia
K. A. Fletcher, Dr. Jack Earl Fletcher, Lee Whiteley (OCTA
members)
hardback
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paperback ........#1548......... $29.95
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Cherokee Trail Diaries
documents pioneering two wagon trails from Arkansas, Cherokee Nation and
Missouri to the main California trail near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. Continuing
to California the Cherokee/white companies travel the Hastings Cutoff, the
first documented wagon companies after the 1846 Reed/Donner party.
CHEROKEE
TRAIL DIARIES Vol.
3: EMIGRANTS, GOLDSEEKERS, CATTLE DRIVES, AND OUTLAWS
Patricia K. A. Fletcher, Dr. Jack Earl Fletcher
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Travel, from 1851 to 1900, is fully documented
by diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, and government records. As
the main north-south corridor from the southern frontier states (first
to California and later the Oregon Territory) emigrant traffic prior
to the Civil War is documented each year. The numerous pre-Civil War
cattle drives to California from Arkansas & Missouri and east Texas
are given considerable detail. Many were strictly cattle drives;
others included emigrating extended families, such as the Baker-Fancher
party that was massacred at Mountain Meadows. Little known until now
was the trailâs use as a Mormon missionary and emigrant route to the
Cherokee and other Indian Nations, and to and from east Texas,
including the Lyman Wight colonies. All of the above and the 1858-9
Pikeâs Peak gold rush over the Cherokee Trail also contributed heavily
to the prolonged use of the Santa Fe Trail. |
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YOUR LETTERS TO SAN JOSE: The California Gold Rush Letters and Diary of James and David Lee Campbell, 1849-1852
edited by David W. Jackson
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Follow the 1850 journey of two brothers who lead an ox-drawn wagon
across Missouri and the plains in search of riches on the Pacific
coast. For another year-and-a half, they continued to record
their
experiences of life in California in a daily diary, and in letters
written home to their families in Illinois. |
EXPEDITION OF THE DONNER PARTY AND ITS TRAGIC
FATE
Eliza P. Donner Houghton with Introduction by Kristin Johnson (OCTA
member)
Paperback..........#1240..........$17.95
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This volume, written by the
Donner's youngest daughter, details the excitement of crossing the prairie
and the horror of that winter. Eliza relates what happened to her and a sister
after being rescued and what it was like to grow up in a world that turned
the Donners into a grisly legend. 579 |
FEARFUL CROSSING
Harold Curran
Paperback..........212 pp..........#1216..........$14.95
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The author describes the
development of the trail and the lives and fortunes of those crossing Nevada.
Extensive quotes >from emigrant journals and other authorities give intimate
insights into daily emigrant living; trouble with Indians, feeding livestock,
fighting, deaths, food preparation. The author, himself, has explored the
trail, giving personal insight into problems of travel over difficult terrain.
More than the main Humboldt trail, this book describes the Applegate
cutoff. 582 |
HO FOR CALIFORNIA! Women's Overland Diaries
from the Huntington Library
Sandra L. Myres (edited and
annotated)
Paperback..........314 pp..........#1267..........$14.95
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Ho for California! contains diaries reflecting the experiences of five different
women on three major westward routes in the middle of the 19th century.
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INDIAN, SOLDIER, AND SETTLER:
Experiences in the Struggle of the American West
Robert M. Utley
Paperback..........#1241..........$9.95
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This book includes the
journals and records of Indian Dewey Horn, soldier William D. Brown, and
settlers Sophia and Catherine German. These personal accounts deal with the
challenges and tests of survival.
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JOURNEYS TO THE LAND OF GOLD:
Emigrant
Diaries from the Bozeman Trail, 1863-66
Susan Badger Doyle;
Foreword by Charles E. Rankin;
Afterword by Elliott West
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This two-volume set contains 33 firsthand accounts of those who followed
the "Bloody Bozeman" to the goldfields of Montana. "When people imagine
the overland trail experience, they usually are imagining events that
happened only on the Bozeman, in other words, "war-bonneted Indians attacking circled wagon trains and soldiers attempting to ride to the
rescue from palisaded forts." (Charles Rankin, Montana Historical
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MOSES SCHALLENBERGER At Truckey's Lake,
1844-45
Charles H. Dodd (OCTA
member)
Paperback..........23 pages..........#1373..........$5.00 _
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The
Stephens-Townsend- Murphy Party, with their eleven wagons, reached Truckey's
Lake (now Donner Lake) in the Sierra Nevada on November 14th. Faced with
the difficulties of taking wagons over what now know as Donner Pass, they
decided to leave six of the wagons at the lake. Moses Schallenberger, just
a week past his eighteenth birthday, decided to stay behind to guard the
wagons and possessions being left. This is his story of that winter.
629 |
NOT HALF THE TRUBLES: A Letter from Virginia
Reed
Charles H. Dodd, editor (OCTA
member)
Paperback..........#1374..........$6.95 _
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Virginia Reed was one
of the surviving members of the Donner Party. "Virginia's spirit shows powerfully
through her writing-it dominates her letter and it leaves us with a dramatic
picture of youth determined to embrace life." From the Introduction.
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OVERLAND MEMOIR OF CHARLES FREDERICK
TRUE:
A Teenager on the
California Trail, 1859
Sally Ralston True, editor (OCTA
member)
Paperback..........#1305..........$ 7.95
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When he was in his seventies,
Charles True wrote this memoir of his trip over the California Trail at the
age of sixteen. It was edited and published by his granddaughter, Sally True,
in 1966. This is a reprint, with revised preface and maps, of this engaging
and informative account of the overland emigrant experience.
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PIONEER
CHILDREN ON THE JOURNEY WEST
Dr. Emmy E. Werner (OCTA
member)
Paperback........202
pp.......#1323........$19.00
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Between 1841 and 1865, some
forty thousand children participated in the great overland journeys from
the banks of the Missouri River to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. In this
book, Dr. Werner, a Development Psychologist, gives 120 of these young emigrants,
ages four to seventeen, a chance to tell the stories of their journeys west.
These documents reveal qualities we all recognize in both children and adults
- grief, pain, joy, kindness, encouragement, indifference, and even cruelty.
Through it all is the integrative power of family bonding and the life sustaining
power of hope found in these children and adults. |
PLATTE RIVER ROAD
NARRATIVES
Merrill
J. Mattes (OCTA Founder)
Hardback..........642 pp..........#1225..........$95.00
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The author spent nearly
a decade compiling this bibliography that lists significant eye-witness accounts
of travel over the central Platte River route between 1812 and 1860. In
describing more than 2,000 accounts, this eminent trails historian identifies
the author, form and the present location of each diary. In a brief synopsis
he gives each trip's chronology, route highlights and also provides a scholarly
analysis of the account. Map. |
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PRECIOUS DUST: THE SAGA OF THE WESTERN GOLD
RUSHES
Paula Mitchell Marks
Paperback..........448 pp.........#1463..........$17.95 _
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This engrossing saga describes
the grand late nineteenth-century treasure hunt as one of our history's epic
dramas. The Library Journal states: "Marks effectively blends diaries and
letters into an effective narrative....She is to be credited for including
the voices of women and people of color." 676 |
RECOLLECTIONS OF A HANDCART PIONEER OF 1860:
A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier
Mary Ann Hafen
Paperback..........#1260..........$6.95
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In the summer of 1860, six
year old Mary Ann Hafen walked beside her parents' handcart from Florence,
Nebraska, to Salt Lake City. Nearly eighty years later, she published this
account of her life, giving an unparalleled inside view of the Mormon woman's
world. 8 photos. 678 |
ROAD FROM EL DORADO: The 1848 Trail Journal
of Ephraim Green
Will Bagley, ed. (OCTA member)
Paperback..........#1307..........$10.00
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This journal deals with members
of the Mormon Battalion who traveled from California to Salt Lake City. A
review in Overland Journal indicates the book is made
outstanding by the work of its editor who starts with events leading up to
the Battalion discharge and their subsequent eastbound journey.
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SCHREEK
OF WAGONS 1848: Diary of Richard M. May
edited by Devere Helfrich and Trudy Ackerman , (OCTA
member)
Paperback..........146 pp..........#1300..........$19.95
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This is an unabridged
version of May's handwritten diary. From editors Helfrich's and Ackerman's
research has come 174 footnotes to support or clarify statements made by
May. May's 132 campsites are separately referenced. 50 photos, maps.
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SELECTED DIARY EXCERPTS OF MORMON TRAVELERS:
From Deer Creek to Devil's Gate
compiled by Levida Hileman (OCTA
member)
Paperback..........#1409..........$7.00
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26 pages, photographs, map,
bibliography and suggestions for further reading. Includes 2 pages of known
Mormon inscriptions on Independence Rock. 691 |
SOUTH PASS, 1868: James Chisolm's Journal of the Wyoming
Gold Rush
Introduced and edited by Lola M. Homsher
Paperback..........244
pp..........#1372..........$12.00
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A staff writer for the
Chicago Tribune, the author was sent to report on
the gold strike made in the late 1860s at South Pass on the western trails.
This is his journal, illustrated by himself - a graceful observant narrative
full of the real essence of frontier mining camp life.4 |
TO THE LAND OF GOLD AND WICKEDNESS:
The 1848-1859 Diary of Lorena L. Hays
Jeanne H. Watson, ed. (OCTA
member)
Paperback..........97 photos, 6 maps..........#1234..........$14.95
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A book of commanding importance,
not just for the trail lore it imparts but because this is the one 19th century
emigrant diary that covers the trip across the plains as well as the years
in California afterward. 703 |
UNFORTUNATE EMIGRANTS: Narratives on the
Donner Party
Edited
by Kristin Johnson (OCTA member)
Paperback..........317 pp..........#1369..........$19.95 _
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A selection of rare and
hard-to-find early accounts of the 1846 emigrant party that was trapped in
the winter snows of the Sierra Nevada, recounting their strenuous and
conflict-ridden trail west; their experiences of starvation, death, and
cannibalism, and the Herculean but disorganized efforts of the Californians
to rescue the survivors.
716 |
WESTERING
WOMEN AND THE FRONTIER EXPERIENCE, 1800-1915
Sandra Myers
724
Paperback..........365
pp..........#1248..........$16.95
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Using extensive material
by and about women - letters, journals and reminiscences from over 400
collections the author studies the impact of the frontier on women's lives
and the role of women in the West. This account recreates in detail the frontier
experiences of all these women. |
WHAT I SAW IN
CALIFORNIA
Edwin Bryant
Paperback..........455 pp..........#1173..........$16.00 _
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This book, first published
in 1848, has long been recognized as the foremost trail guide for the forty-
niners. Bryant's book became their guide to surviving the grueling passage
from Independence, Missouri, to the gold country. This is a valuable primary
source on the westering experience. 726 |
WHO WERE THE MURPHYS? California's Irish
First Family
Earl F. Schmidt (OCTA
member)
Paperback.............#1280.............$5.50 _
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The Martin Murphy family
played a major role in the settlement and development of California - the
first to succeed in bringing wagons over the Sierra Nevada (1844); service
in the American Conquest (1846-1847); the first to strike it rich in the
gold fields (1848-1849); and they pioneered and prospered in agricultural
development. 728 |
WOMEN'S
DIARIES OF THE WESTWARD JOURNEY
Lillian
Schlissel
Paperback..........278 pp..........#1239
$14.00
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Based on the diaries
of 103 women, this book examines women's roles in the migration west from
1841- 1867. These women wrote of daily living activities as they "kept house"
and reared children while traveling 2,000 miles. 732 |
WOMEN'S VOICES FROM THE OREGON TRAIL
Susan Butrille (OCTA member)
Paperback..........251 pp..........#1295..........$14.95
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The author artfully blends
women's diaries, songs, history, poetry, recipes and quilts to create a sensitive
narration of women's roles in opening the West. The second section provides
a guide to women's history along the trail, showing where to find markers,
signposts, landmarks and historical sites |
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