U.S. Exploration Narratives

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Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805
by Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire, Peter Wild. 398 pgs.

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Narratives of Exploration and Adventure
by John Charles Fremont, Allan Nevins. 532 pgs.

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Preface

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Frémont as an Explorer

Chapter 1: Youth: a Railroad Survey: The Cherokees

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Chapter 2: Nicollet: Surveying the Minnesota-Dakota Country

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Chapter 3: Hassler: Courtship of Jessie Benton: Oregon

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Chapter 4: First Expedition: From Missouri to Fort Laramie

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Chapter 5: From Fort Laramie To the Wind River Range

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Chapter 6: Second Expedition, 1843-44: Kit Carson and Fitzpatrick: Journey to Great Salt Lake

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Chapter 7: From Great Salt Lake to Fort Vancouver

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Chapter 8: Klamath Falls: Pyramid Lake: Across the Sierra Nevadan in Winter

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Chapter 9: Sutter's Fort: the San Joaquin Valley: Return to Utah Lake

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Chapter 10: The Third Expedition: Benton, Bancroft, Buchanan Eager to Gain California: Preparations

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Chapter 11: Crossing the Great Basin: Indian Fighting: Sutter's Fort Again: Hostility of Mexicans

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Chapter 12: To the Shasta Country: Klamath Lake: Gillespie's Arrival: The Recall to California

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Appendix: Geographical Memoir

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Journals of Forty-Niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles: With Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and Others
by Ann W. Hafen, Leroy R. Hafen. 333 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Historical Background and Summary

Part I: Packers: First Over the Trail in 1849

Part II: The Gruwell-Derr Wagon Train

C: Notes of Benjamin Hayes

Part III: The Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train

C: James S. Brown's Account

D: the Sidney P. Waite Sketch

Part IV: The Rynierson Company

Part V: The Flake-Rich Company of Packers

B: Charles C. Rich Diary

C: William Farrer Diary

E: James H. Rollins Recollection

F: Sheldon Stoddard Sketch

Part VI: The Stover Party of Packers

Part VII: The Pomeroy Wagon Train

C: Extract from Goudy Hogan Journal

D: the Walter Van Dyke Account

Part VIII: The Howard Egan Wagon Train

Appendix

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Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition
by Marlene Deahl Merrill. 322 pgs.

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A daily record of Ferdinand Hayden's historic scientific expedition trough Utah, Idaho, & Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin.

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Acknowledgments

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The Diarists

Prologue: Letters from Ferdinand Hayden to George Allen, 1870-1871

1871 Yellowstone Survey Members

PART ONE: GEORGE ALLEN'S JOURNAL

I: Traveling by Train

2: Salt Lake City and Ogden

3: Idaho and Montana Territories

PART TWO: GEORGE ALLEN'S AND ALBERT PEALE'S JOURNALS

4: Montana Territory

PART THREE: ALBERT PEALE'S JOURNAL

5: From Fort Ellis to Bottler's Ranch and Mammoth Hot Springs

6: To Tower Falls, Lower Falls, Yellowstone Cañon, and Yellowstone Lake

7: The Geyser Basins

8: From Base Camp at West Thumb to Steamboat Point

9: Pelican Valley, Baronett's Bridge, Bottler's Ranch, and Fort Ellis

10: To the Jefferson Valley, the Beaverhead, Fort Hall, and Salt Lake City

Afterword

Abbreviations

Appendix I: Biographies of 1871 Survey Members

Appendix 2: Peale's Journal: May 21 to July 3, 1871

Appendix 4.: Hayden's Yellowstone Report to the Committee on the Public Lands and the Yellowstone Park Bill

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Glossary of Geological Terms and Fossil Shells

References

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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery
by William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Gary E. Moulton. 413 pgs.

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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery

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Preface

Introduction

Editorial Principles

Members of the Permanent Party

Chapter 1: Expedition Underway

Chapter 2: The Middle Missouri

Chapter 3: Knife River Winter

Chapter 4: Into the Unknown

Chapter 5: Portaging the Falls

Chapter 6: Shadows of the Rockies

Chapter 7: Those Tremendous Mountains

Chapter 8: Ro11 on Columbia

Chapter 9: Pacific Coast Winter

Chapter 10: Homeward Bound

Chapter 11: Separation and Reunion

Chapter 12: Hurrying Home

Afterword

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The Road to Santa Fe: The Journal and Diaries of George Champlin Sibley and Others Pertaining to the Surveying and Marking of a Road from the Missouri Frontier to the Settlements of New Mexico, 1825-1827
by Kate L. Gregg. 280 pgs.

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The Journal of George C. Sibley On An Expedition to Survey and Mark A Road from the Missouri Frontier to The Settlements in Mexico. St. Louis, June 22, To Santa Fe, November 30, 1825.

Diary of George C. Sibley, Santa Fe and Taos, January 1 To March 31, 1826.

Report of the Commissioners.

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The Domainguez-Escalante Journal: Their Expedition through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776
by Fray Angelico Chavez, Ted J. Warner, Silvestre Valez de Escalante. 153 pgs.

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The chronicle of Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez's remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau to inventory new lands for the Spanish crown and to find a route from Santa Fe to Monterey, California.

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Introduction

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Santa Fe-RÍo De San LÁzaro: July 29-August 11

RÍo De San LÁzaro -- San RamÓn: August 12-August 31

San Ramón-Las Llagas: September 1-September 16

Las Llagas-San AndrÉs: September 17-September 26

San AndrÉs-San Eleuterio: September 27-October 10

San Eleuteriosanta BÁrbara: October 11-October 21

Santa BÁrbara-Oraibi: October 22-November 16

Oraibi -- Santa Fe: November 17-January 3

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The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier: Being the Log of the Upper Missouri Historical Expedition under the Auspices of the Governors & Historical Associations of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Montana for 1925
by Agnes C. Laut, Charles M. Russell. 276 pgs.

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An Invocation by the Reverend T.F. Gullixon of Minot, N. D. at Verendrye, July 17, 1925

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List of Drawings by Charles M. Russell

List of Halftone Illustrations

Part I: La Verendrye (1738-39-41) and Thompson (1797-98)

Part Ii: at Old Fort Union (1829- 1867)

Part Iii: Chief Joseph (1877); the Passing of the Indian

Part Iv: Lewis and Clark's Farthest North (1804-1806)

Part V: John F. Stevens Discovers Maria's Pass

To the Bronze Statue of John F. Stevens

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Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, Vol. 1
by Dale Morgan. 457 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

Diary of William E. Taylor With a Letter by John Craig

Diary of Nicholas Carriger

Diary of Virgil Pringle

Journal of Thomas Holt

Diary of George Mckinstry With a Letter to P. B. Reading

Diary of James Mathers

The Miller-Reed Diary With Letters by J. F. Reed and Virginia Reed

Diary of Patrick Breen

Diaries of the Donner Relief

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Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, Vol. 2
by Dale Morgan. 826 pgs.

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Introduction

Ho! for California and Oregon

The Plains

New and Nearer Routes

The New Land: Oregon and California

Route and Distances to Oregon and California, with a Description of Watering-Places, Crossings, Dangerous Indians, &c. &c. by J. M. Shively. Washington, D.C. Wm. Greer, Printer 1846.

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L'Envoi: Errata
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On to Oregon: The Diaries of Mary Walker and Myra Eells
by Clifford Merrill Drury, Myra Fairbanks Eells, Mary Richardson Walker. 382 pgs.

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Introduction to the Bison Books Edition

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Persons and Places Mentioned in The Text

Mrs. Elkanah Walker

Mrs. Cushing Eells

The Overland Journey Combining the Diaries of Myra Eells And Mary Walker, April to September 1838

Mary Walker's Diary September 1838-July 1848

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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849, Vol. 1
by Kenneth L. Holmes. 282 pgs.

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Introduction to the Bison Books Edition

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Introduction

Across the Plains in 1845 Betsey Bayley

The Letter of Betsey Bayley

A Letter from the Luckiamute Valley Anna Maria King

A Brimfield Heroine Tabitha Brown

Letter II

The Donner Party Letters Tamsen E. Donner VIrginia E. B. Reed

Tamsen E. Donner: Letter II

Virginia E. B. Reed: Letter II

Two Letters Phoebe Stanton

I. A Letter from Missouri: 1847

Letters from A Quaker Woman Rachel Fisher

Rachel Fisher Mills: Letter II

Epilogue

The Diary of Elizabeth Dixon Smith

Epilogue

A Pioneer Mormon Diary & Patty Sessions

Epilogue: Record of Births

The Commentaries of & Keturah Belknap

Keturah Belknap'S Running Commentary

The Diary of A Pioneer Girl Sallie Hester

A Letter from California, 1849 Louisiana Strentzel

Running A Boarding House in the Mines

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