A trip to California in 1853: Recollections of a gold seeking trip by ox train across the plains and mountains by an old Illinois pioneer

The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions

Randolph B. Marcy

The Prairie Traveler is a practical handbook for anyone planning an over‑land journey across the American…

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method

Wm. Audley Maxwell

Crossing the Plains, Days of ’57 is a first‑person narrative of an 1857 overland emigrant party that travels…

Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 2, October 21-December 4, 1839 and De Smet's Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846

Farnham, Thomas Jefferson; Smet, Pierre-Jean de

The work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travelogue that combines two distinct but related narratives: Thomas…

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

Eliza Poor Donner Houghton’s work is a first‑person memoir that intertwines personal recollection with a…

The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

Sir Richard Francis Burton

This work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travelogue by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a British officer and…

History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra

C. F. McGlashan

History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra is a meticulously compiled historical account of the…