Exploration & Discovery: The American West
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| Author | Title | Edition | Format | Price | Puborg |
| Larkin, Elijah, 1829-1905 | Diaries, 1854-1867 [pioneer; Mormon policeman in Engl.; Neb. to Salt Lake, ox team] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Ledyard, John | A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, & in Quest of a North-West passage Between Asia | 1783 Hartf | Graphic | Free | Libr Congress |
| Leonard, Zenas | Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader & Trapper, 1831-1836 | 1839 | Html | Free | MountnMen |
| Lewis & Clark, Floyd, Gass, Ordway, & Wh | Excerpts from the Jornals of the Corps of Discovery [illus.] [Meriwether Lewis & William Clark, etc.] | 1804-6/200? | Html | Free | PBS |
| Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark | The Journals of Lewis & Clark | 18?? | Html | Free | UVa-AmStd |
| Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark | The Journals of Lewis & Clark [ed. Gary Moulton; v 4 selections; to be complete] | 1803-6 | Html | Free | UNebraskaPr |
| Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark | Travels to the source of the Missouri River & across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean v1 | 1814 Lond | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
| Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark | Travels to the source of the Missouri River & across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean v2 [maps] | 1814 Lond | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
| Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark | Voyage des Capitaines Lewis et Clarke depuis l'embouchure du Missouri, jusqu'a l'entree de la Colombia dans l' | 1810 Paris | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
| Lewis, Meriwether, et.al (Paul Allen, ed | History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis & Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Across | 1814 | Html Graphic | Free | Libr Congress |
| Lienhard, Heinrich, 1822-1903 [frm Switz | A Pioneer at Sutter's Fort, 1846-1850 [by wagon to calif.; gold; farming] | 1941 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Luttig, John C | Journal of a fur-trading expedition on the Upper Missouri, 1812-1813 [Missouri Fur Company] | 1920? | Html | Free | MountnMen |
| Mackie, Richard Somerset | Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 | 1997 | Questia | subs | UBrColumbiaPr |
| Manly, William Lewis | Death Valley in '49 [gold; pioneers] | 1894 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Marcy, Randolph B. (Capt.) | The Prarie Travler: A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions. w/Mays, illus. & Itineraries of the Principal Routes | 1859 | Html | Free | KansasCol |
| Martin, Jesse Bigler, 1825-1908 | Diaries, 1853-1857 [Mormon missionary to Engl, pioneer; Iowa to Neb. to Utah; disease & deaths; disputes] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Mayne, Richard Charles | Four years in British Columbia & Vancouver Island | 1862 Lond | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
| McGlashan, C. F. | History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS | |
| McIlhany, Edward Washington, b. 1828 [fr | Recollections of a '49er...narrative of a trip across the plains, and life in the California gold fields | 1908 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Meek, Stephen Hall | The autobiography of Stephen Hall Meek [c1831] [frm The Golden Era, 1885] [fur trade; Rocky Mtn Fur Co.] | 1885 | Html | Free | MountnMen |
| Mofras, Eugene Duflot de | Exploration du territoire de l'Oregon, des Californies et de la mer vermeille,...pendant les annees 1840-42, v | 1844 Paris | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
| Mofras, Eugene Duflot de | Exploration du territoire de l'Oregon, des Californies et de la mer vermeille,...pendant les annees 1840-42, v | 1844 Paris | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
| Mofras, Eugene Duflot de | Exploration du territoire de l'Oregon, des Californies et de la mer vermeille,...pendant les annees 1840-42, v | 1844 Paris | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
| Moss, William P. | The Story of a 100 Years, Or, The Territorial Growth of the US of America Since the Organization of the Northw | 1887 Chi. | Graphic or PDF | Free | |
| Mulford, Prentice | Prentice Mulford's Story: Life by Land & Sea [sailed to San Francisco on a clipper in 1856; frm Sag Harbor NY; | 1889 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Neill, Edward Duffield, 1823-1893 (Rev) | Sieur de La Verendrye; Discoverers of the Rocky Mountains, [via] lakes Superior & Winnepeg, & rivers Assineboi | 1875 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Newell, Robert (1807-1869) | Travels in the Teritory of Missourie [1829-42] [fur trade] | 1959 & mss | Html | Free | MountnMen |
| Ogden, Peter Skene, 1790-1854 | Snake Country Journals [5 expeditions to the Columbia & Snake; 1825-29] | n.d. | Html PDF | Free | MountnMen |
| Parker, Samuel, 1779-1866 | Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, 1835-37...w/customs of the natives; [Gt. Platte Rive | 1838 | Graphic | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Parker, Samuel, 1779-1866 | Map of Oregon Territory [in: Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains] | 1842 | Graphic | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Parkinson, John Barber (1834-1927) | Memories of Early Wisconsin & the Gold Mines | 1921? | Html Graphic | Free | Libr Congress |
| Parkman, Francis | A Half-Century of Conflict, v2 [French/English rivalry in N Amer] | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS | |
| Parkman, Francis | La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West | 2000 | Adobe eBook | 4.95 | RandomHse |
| Parkman, Francis | The Oregon Trail | 1849 | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS |
| Parkman, Francis | The Oregon Trail [illus., Frederick Remington; N C Wyeth; Thomas Hart Benton] | 1849 | Html | Free | UVa-AmStd |
| Parkman, Francis | The Oregon Trail: Adventures on the Prairie in the 1840's | 2001 | Adobe eBook | 7.95 | NarrativePr |
| Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893 | The Oregon Trail: The Conspiracy Of Pontiac | 1991 | NetLibr (Ebsco) | 35.00 | LiteraryClsscs |
| Patchell, Sarah Elizabeth | My Extraordinary Years of Adventure...in Klondike & Alaska [Gold Rush] | 19-? | Graphic | Free | ECO |
| Phillips, Cyrus E., 1829-1903 | Diaries, 1852-1883 [frm Ind. to Nev.; "enthusiastic traveler"; buffalo hunting; Indians; RR to Salt Lake & Ida | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Pierce, Hiram Dwight, b. 1810 | A Forty-Niner Speaks; chronological record of a New Yorker [Troy] & his adventures in mining localities in Cal | 1930 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Piercy, Frederick Hawkins, 1830-1891 | Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley [30 illus.]; together w/geog. & hist. description of Utah | 1855 | Graphic | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Poe, Andrew Jackson, 1817-1902 | Diary, 1847-1958 (vol 1) [IA to Oregon] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Poe, Andrew Jackson, 1817-1902 | Diary, 1847-1958 (vol 2) [IA to Oregon] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Poe, Andrew Jackson, 1817-1902 | Diary, 1847-1958 (vol 3) [IA to Oregon] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Portola, Gaspar de, 1723?-84? | The March of Portola & the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco (tr. Zoeth Eldredge & EJ Molera) | Txt-G | Free | GutenbergUS | |
| Potts, Daniel T. | The Rocky Mountain Letters of Daniel Potts [1824-28] | 1826-7/mss. | Html | Free | MountnMen |
| Powel, John Alkire, 1807-1880 | Journal, 1851-1878 [overland, Ill. to Oregon; recipts, expenses, marriages; itinerant preacher] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Purdy, John H. | Correspondence, 1849-1851 [to his brother; overland by ox team from Ohio to Calif, 1849; Salt Lake; assesment | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Rae, William Fraser, 1835-1905 | Westward by rail: The new route to the East | 1871 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Raynolds, W. F. (Brig. Gen.) | Report on the exploration of the Yellowstone river [1868] | 1868 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
| Richardson, Albert D. | Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean: Life... on the Prairies, Mountains & Pacific | 1869 Hartfd | Questia | subs | AmerPublCo |
| Rideout, Mrs. Jacob Barzilla | Camping Out in California | 1889 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Ross, Alexander | Journal of Snake Country Expedition, 1824 (Ore. Hist. Soc.) [Hudson's Bay Co.; fur trade] | 1913 | Html | Free | MountnMen |
| Rusling, James Fowler, 1834-1918 | Across America; or, The Great West & the Pacific Coast [post Civil War "tour of western military outposts"] | 1875 NY | Graphic | Free | DickinsonCol |
| Russell, Osborne | Journal of a Trapper: or Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843 [Yellowstone reg] | 1914 & mss. | Html PDF | Free | MountnMen |
| Ruxton, George Frederick | Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains [1846-7] [from Mexico; buffalo; birds; return to London] | n.d. | Html | Free | MountnMen |
| Sanders, Sue A. Pike, 1842-1931 | A Journey To, On, & From the 'Golden Shore' [RR from Ill. to Grand Army of the Republic encampment, SF] | 1887 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Schaeffer, Luther Melanchthon | Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico & California | 1860 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Scharmann, Herman B | Scharmann's Overland Journey to California (tr. M.H. & E.W. Zimmerman) | 1918 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Schoolcraft, Henry R. | Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri & Arkansaw... Toward the Rocky Mountains, 1818-19 | 1821 | Graphic Txt | Free | UMissouri |
| Shaw, Pringle | Ramblings in California [gold; urbanization; exploration, surveys] | 1857? | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Shoemaker (?) | Shoemaker overland diary, 1850 [Mich to Calif; gold] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Smith, Bathsheba W. Bigler, 1822-1910 | Diary, 1847 & 1873. [Mormon pioneer from W.Va., Mo., Nauvoo ILL, to Salt Lake; first wife of Geo. Albert Smit | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Smith, Job, 1828-1913 | Diary & autobiography, 1849-1877 [Mormon missionary, pioneer; frm Engl.; cholera, Dakota Indians; capt of the | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Smith, Sarah Hathaway Bixby, 1871-1935 | Adobe Days; being the truthful narrative of the events in the life of a California girl on a sheep ranch; 1853 | 1925 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Snow, William, 1806-1879 (frm VT) | Autobiography, ca. 1850 [Mormon pioneer, farmer, probate Judge; missionary; IA to Salt Lake; cholera] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Spalding, Eliza (Mrs.) | Diary of Mrs. Eliza Spalding: June 15-July6, 1836 [fur trade] | n.d. | Html | Free | MountnMen |
| Spalding, Henry | Letter from the Rocky Mountains, 1836 | n.d. | Html | Free | MountnMen |
| Spooner, Elijah Allen, 1811-1879 (of Mas | Letters and Diary, 1849-1850. [1500 letters to wife; Mich. to Calif.; Indians; buffalo hunting; religious fait | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
| Stephens, Lorenzo Dow | Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49 [overland; Brigham Young's sermons; prospecting, farming, cattle drives; | 1916 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Stoddard, Charles Augustus | Beyond the Rockies: A Spring Journey in California [rail trip; missions; redwood forests; Chicago World's Fair | 1894 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| Sutter, John Augustus (1803-80) [from Sw | The Diary of Johann August Sutter ["Discovery of gold on Sutter's land in 1848 ruined him"] | 1932 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
| T. Nelson & Sons, Publ. | The Union Pacific Railroad: A Trip Across the North American Continent from Omaha to Ogden [Nelsons' Pictorial | 1871 | Html | Free | UNebraskaLncln |
| Taylor, Bayard | Eldorado: Adventures in the path of empire [v1] A Voyage to California, via Panama, Life in San Francisco & Mo | 1850 Lond | Graphic PDF | Free | UGoettingen |
| Taylor, Benjamin F | Between the Gates [journey by train from Chicago to San Francisco in the 1870s; Chinatown; Yosemite] | 1878 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |