U.S. History: Westward Expansion (4): The Far West
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Author | Title | Edition | Format | Price | Puborg |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Scharmann, Herman B | Scharmann's Overland Journey to California (tr. M.H. & E.W. Zimmerman) | 1918 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
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, 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 |
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] |
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 |
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 |
Tolles, James, b. 1828 or 9 (frm ILL) | Journal, 1849-1850 [Prospector, pioneer, & farmer; ILL to Calif. by ox team; disappointing mines; delivering | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Report of the sec. of war...a reconnaissance of the gulf of California & the Colorado river | 1852 | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
Verney, Edmund Hope, 1838-1910 | An overland journey from San Francisco to NY [via] the Salt Lake City, 1866 [gunboat captain in B.C.; by stage | 1866 | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Walker, William Z., d. 1862 (frm Mass.) | Diary, 1849 [overland by ox & mule from Boston to Calif.; cholera; disagreements; trade with 800 Dakotas] | 200-? | Graphic Html | Free | BYU [LC] |
Webster, Kimball (1828-1916) | The Gold Seekers of '49: a personal narrative of the overland trail & adventures in California & Oregon from 1 | 1917 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
Wood, Harvey, 1828-1895 | Personal Recollections [voyage to Calif., miner; ferry operator] | 1878/1955 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
Zimmerman, Margaret Hoff, trans | Scharmann's Overland Journey to California | 1918 | Html | Free | Libr Congress |
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