The Overland Trail
Cooke, Lucy Rutledge. Crossing the Plains in 1852: Narrative of a Trip from Iowa to "The Land of Gold," as Told in Letters Written During the Journey. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1988[?].
Coy, Owen Cochran. The Great Trek. Los Angeles: Powell Publishing Co, 1931. {Overland journeys to the Pacific in 1849}
Faragher, John Mack. Women and Men on the Overland Trail. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
Hafen, LeRoy R. (ed.). Overland Routes to the Gold Fields, 1859: from Contemporary Diaries. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1942.
Holmes, Kenneth L. (ed & comp). Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails. 11v. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1995-2000.
Hunt, Thomas H. Ghost Trails to California: with Selected Excerpts from Emigrant Journals. Palo Alto, CA: American West Publishing Co., 1974.
Loomis, Leander Vaness. A Journal of the Birmingham Emigrating Company; the Record of a Trip from Birmingham, Iowa, to Sacramento, California, in 1850. Salt Lake City: Legal Printing Co, 1928.
MacGregor, Greg. Overland: The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
McLynn, Frank. Wagons West: The Epic Story of America’s Overland Trails. New York: Grove Press, 2002.
Mattes, Merrill J. The Great Platte River Road; the Covered Wagon Mainline via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie. Lincoln: Universiy of Nebraska Press, 1969.
Monaghan, Jay. The Overland Trail. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1947.
Montgomery, Donna Wojcik. The Brazen Overlanders of 1845. Rev. ed. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1992.
Morgan, Dale Lowell (ed.). Overland in 1846; Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail. 2v. Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1963.
Myres, Sandra L. (ed.). Ho for California! Women’s Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1980.
Paden, Irene D. Prairie Schooner Detours. NY: Macmillan, 1949.
Paden, Irene D. The Wake of the Prairie Schooner. NY: Macmillan Co, 1943.
Palmer, Rosemary Gudmundson. Children’s Voices from the Trail: Narratives of the Platte River Road. Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 2002.
Pioneering on the Plains, Journey to Mexico in 1848, the Overland Trip to California. Kaukauna, WI: npub, 1924.
Powers, Ramon S. "Cholera on the Overland Trails, 1832-1869." Kansas Quarterly 5 (Spring 1973): 32-49.
Rumer, Thomas A. The Wagon Trains of ‘44: A Comparative View of the Individual Caravans in the Emigration of 1844 to Oregon. Spokane, WA: A.H. Clark, 1990.
Unruh, John D. The Plains Across: the Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1860. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979.
Wilbur, Sanford R. & Sally H. Wilbur (eds). The McCully Train: Iowa to Oregon, 1852. Gresham, OR: Symbios, 2000.
Willoughby, Robert J. The Great Western Migration to the Gold Fields of California, 1849-1850. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2003.
