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Top authorsJohn Woodhouse AudubonWashington BaileyEdwin BryantSir Richard Francis BurtonGilbert L. ColeCrumpton, H. J. (Hezekiah John); Crumpton, Washington BryanRichard Harding DavisWilliam Seymour EdwardsThomas Jefferson FarnhamFarnham, Thomas Jefferson; Smet, Pierre-Jean de
The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions

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

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…

Cover of 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'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

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…

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

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

History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra

C. F. McGlashan

Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains

Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains

Washington Irving

Cover of Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast

Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast

James Fowler Rusling

Cover of Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 1, May 21-October 16, 1839

Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 1, May 21-October 16, 1839

Thomas Jefferson Farnham

Cover of Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey, 1832; and Townsend's Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, 1834

Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey, 1832; and Townsend's Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, 1834

Wyeth, John B. (John Bound); Townsend, John Kirk

Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

Meeker, Ezra; Driggs, Howard R.

Cover of Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846

Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846

Joel Palmer

Cover of Death Valley in '49 Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the gold mines of California; and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave "Death Valley" its name

Death Valley in '49 Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the gold mines of California; and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave "Death Valley" its name

William Lewis Manly

Cover of In to the Yukon

In to the Yukon

William Seymour Edwards

Cover of The West from a car window

The West from a car window

Richard Harding Davis

Cover of On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours, Starting Without a Dollar and Earning My Way

On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours, Starting Without a Dollar and Earning My Way

R. Pitcher Woodward

Cover of The gold seekers of '49: a personal narrative of the overland trail and adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854

The gold seekers of '49: a personal narrative of the overland trail and adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854

Kimball Webster

What I Saw in California A Description of Its Soil, Climate, Productions, and Gold Mines, with the Best Routes and Latest Information for Intending Emigrants; to Which is Annexed an Appendix Containing Official Documents and Letters Authenticating the Accounts of the Quantities of Gold Found, with Its Actual Value Ascertained by Chemical Assay; also Late Communications Containing Accounts of the Highest Interest and Importance from the Gold Districts; with a Map

What I Saw in California A Description of Its Soil, Climate, Productions, and Gold Mines, with the Best Routes and Latest Information for Intending Emigrants; to Which is Annexed an Appendix Containing Official Documents and Letters Authenticating the Accounts of the Quantities of Gold Found, with Its Actual Value Ascertained by Chemical Assay; also Late Communications Containing Accounts of the Highest Interest and Importance from the Gold Districts; with a Map

Edwin Bryant

Cover of Antoine of Oregon: A Story of the Oregon Trail

Antoine of Oregon: A Story of the Oregon Trail

James Otis

Cover of The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; An Account of the Author's Trip Across the Plains with an Ox Team; Return Trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail.

The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; An Account of the Author's Trip Across the Plains with an Ox Team; Return Trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail.

Ezra Meeker

Cover of An overland journey, from New York to San Francisco in the summer of 1859

An overland journey, from New York to San Francisco in the summer of 1859

Horace Greeley

Across the Plains to California in 1852: Journal of Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell

Across the Plains to California in 1852: Journal of Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell

Lodisa Frizell

Cover of Audubon's western journal: 1849-1850 Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California

Audubon's western journal: 1849-1850 Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California

John Woodhouse Audubon

Cover of Recollections of a Pioneer

Recollections of a Pioneer

J. W. Gibson

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