SUGGESTED READING LIST

GENERAL BOOKS

• The California Trail, by George R. Stewart, University of Nebraska Press.
• The Plains Across, by John D. Unruh, Jr., University of Illinois Press.
• The Great Platte River Road, by Merril J. Mattes, University of Nebraska Press.
• The Humboldt, Highroad of the West, by Dale L. Morgan, University of Nebraska Press.
• West From Fort Bridger, The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah, 1846-1850, Edited by J. Roderic Korns & Dale Morgan, Utah State University Press.

OVERLAND DIARIES

• To the Land of Gold and Wickedness, the 1848-59 Diary of Lorena L. Hays, Edited by Jeanne Hamilton Watson, Patrice Press.
• What I Saw in California, by Edwin Bryant, University of Nebraska Press.
• Eldorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire, by Bayard Taylor, University of Nebraska Press.
• The World Rushed In, the California Gold Rush Experience, by J.S. Holliday, Simon & Schuster.
• The Bidwell-Bartleson Party, 1841 California Emigrant Adventure, The Documents and Memoirs of the Overland Pioneers, Edited by Dr. Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Western Tanager Press.

DONNER BOOKS

• The Donner Party Chronicles, by Frank Mullen Jr., Nevada humanities Committee.
• History of the Donner Party, A Tragedy of the Sierra, by C. McGlashan, Stanford University Press.
• Ordeal by Hunger, The Story of the Donner Party, by George R. Stewart, University of Nebraska Press.
• Winter of Entrapment, A New Look at the Donner Party, by Joseph A. King, K&K Publications.
• Unfortunate Emigrants, Narratives of the Donner Party, Edited by Kristin Johnson, Utah State University Press.
• The Archaeology of the Donner Party, by Donald L. Hardesty, University of Nevada Press.

WOMEN ON THE TRAIL

• Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey, by Lillian Schlissel, Schocken Books.
• Covered Wagon Women, Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, Edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes, University of Nebraska Press. A different volume for each year.
• They Saw the Elephant, Women in the California Gold Rush, by Jo Ann Levy, University of Oklahoma Press.

MORMON HISTORY

• The Mormon Battalion, U.S. Army of the West, 1846 - 1848, by Norma Baldwin Ricketts, Utah State University Press.
• The Gold Discovery Journal of Azariah Smith, edited by David L. Bigler, Utah State University Press.
• The Mormon Trail, Yesterday and Today, by William E. Hill, Utah State University Press.
• Handcarts to Zion, by Leroy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen, University of Nebraska Press.

EARLY CALIFORNIA (PRE GOLD RUSH)

• California Conquered, the Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846 - 1850, by Neal Harlow, University of California Press.

19^TH CENTURY TRAIL GUIDE BOOKS

• The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California, by Lansford W. Hastings, Applewood Books.
• The Prairie Traveler, by Capt. Randolph B. Marcy, Applewood Books

CHILDREN’S BOOKS ABOUT THE TRAIL

• About Children:
  • Pioneer Children on the Journey West, by Emmy E. Werner, Westview Press.
  • Children of the Wild West, by Russell Freeman, Clarion.
• For Children:
  • Going West, by Jean Van Leeuwen, pictures by Thomas B. Allen, Puffin Publishers.
  • If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon, by Ellen Levine, illustrated by Elroy Freem, Scholastic.

GOING TO CALIFORNIA BY SEA

• Sea Routes to the Gold Fields, Oscar Lewis, Ballantine Books.
• To California by Sea, a Maritime History of the California Gold Rush, by James P. Delgado, University of South Carolina.

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