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Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), ed. by Kristin Johnson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
The Journal of Mrs. Mary Ringo: A Diary of Her Trip Across the Great Plains in 1864 (published 1956), by Mary Ringo, contrib. by Mattie Bell Cushing (page images at loc.gov)
A Day With the Cow Column in 1843 (Portland, OR: Champoeg Press, 1952), by Jesse A. Applegate, contrib. by Dorothy Johansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
California: A Trip Across the Plains, In the Spring of 1850, by James Abbey (multiple formats at loc.gov)
A California Tramp and Later Footprints, by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (HTML at LOC)
Excursion to the Oregon (1855 London edition), by John Kirk Townsend, ed. by William Chambers and Robert Chambers (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
Journal of Medorem Crawford: An Account of His Trip Across the Plains With the Oregon Pioneers of 1862 (Eugene, OR: Star Job Office, 1897), by Medorem Crawford (page images at Legacy Washington)
Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49, by Lorenzo Dow Stephens (HTML at LOC)
The Overland Stage to California (1901), by Frank A. Root and William Elsey Connelley (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
Pilgrimage of Mary Commandery No. 36, by Clifford Paynter Allen (PDF at loc.gov)
Report and Journal of Captain Medorem Crawford, Commanding the Emigrant Escort to Oregon and Washington Territory in the Year 1862, by Medorem Crawford (page images at Legacy Washington)
Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er: Memories Recalled Years Later for Her Daughter Correnah Wilson Wright (Mills College, CA: Eucalyptus Press, 1937), by Luzena Stanley Wilson, ed. by Correnah Wilson Wright, contrib. by Francis P. Farquhar, illust. by Kathryn Uhl
- page images at HathiTrust
- unillustrated transcription: PDF and XML at loc.gov
Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska (1958), by Merrill J. Mattes (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)
Across the Rockies to the Columbia, by John Kirk Townsend (HTML at xmission.com)
Glimpses of Hungryland: or, California Sketches, by W. S. Walker (HTML at LOC)
History of the Donner Party, A Tragedy of the Sierra, by C. F. McGlashan
- HTML at books-about-california.com
- Gutenberg text
Horn's Overland Guide, From the U. S. Indian Subagency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California (New York: J. H. Colton, 1852), by Hosea B. Horn (page images at cprr.org)
In the Early Days Along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory in 1852 (Kansas City, MI: Press of Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1905), by Gilbert L. Cole, ed. by Mrs. A. S. Hardy (multiple formats at archive.org)
Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold-Seekers Under the Guidance of Mr. Ledyard Frink During a Journey Across the Plains From Martinsville, Indiana, to Sacramento, California, from March 30, 1850, to September 7, 1850: From the Original Diary of the Trip Kept by Mrs. Margaret A. Frink (ca. 1897), by Margaret A. Frink, ed. by Ledyard Frink (page images at HathiTrust)
Memories of Early Wisconsin and the Gold Mines, by John Barber Parkinson (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
Ocean to Ocean: Sandford Fleming's Expedition Through Canada in 1872 (1873), by George Monro Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
Personal Recollections, by Harvey Wood (HTML at LOC)
A Pioneer's Search For an Ideal Home: A Book of Personal Memoirs, by Phoebe Goodell Judson (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions (1859), by Randolph B. Marcy (HTML with commentary at kancoll.org)
Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)
Recollections of My Boyhood: By Jessie Applegate, Oregon Pioneer of 1843 (Roseburg, OR: Press of Review Publishing Co., 1914), by Jesse A. Applegate (page images at HathiTrust)
Scharmann's Overland Journey to California, by Herman B. Scharmann, trans. by Margaret Hoff Zimmerman and Erich W. Zimmerman (HTML at LOC)
Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)
The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys, by H. J. Crumpton and Washington Bryan Crumpton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains, by Washington Irving
- Gutenberg text
- HTML at xmission.com
Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v8; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
California '46 to '88, by Jacob Wright Harlan (HTML at LOC)
Central Route to the Pacific, by Gwinn Harris Heap (page images at MOA)
Echoes of the Past About California, by John Bidwell (HTML at LOC)
The Gold Seekers of '49, by Kimball Webster (HTML at LOC)
Oregon, or A Short History of a Long Journey, by John B. Wyeth (HTML at xmission.com)
Pioneering in the Northwest: Niobrara-Virginia City Wagon Road, by Albert M. Holman; Pioneers, Short Sketches of Charles Floyd, War Eagle, Theophile Bruguier, and Others, by Constant R. Marks (Sioux City, IA: Deitch and Lamar Co., 1924), by Albert M. Holman and C. R. Marks (page images at HathiTrust)
A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California, With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, Including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles (London: Richard Bentley, 1852), by Henry J. Coke (page images in Germany)
Those I Have Met: or, Boys in Blue, in Which is Remembered Those I Have Met Along The Road of Life (Anderson, IN: S. Harden, 1888), by Samuel Harden (HTML and page images at Indiana)
The History of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska (1934), by Donald D. Brand (HTML at National Park Service)
The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California: Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Edition of 1845, with Historical Note and Bibliography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932), by Lansford Warren Hastings, ed. by Charles Henry Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, by Richard Francis Burton (page images at MOA)
Death Valley in '49, by William Lewis Manly (HTML at LOC)
The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (Cincinnati: G. Conclin, 1845), by Lansford Warren Hastings (multiple formats at archive.org)
An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, With an Examination of the Mormon Principle (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1870), by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (page images in Germany)
Life and Adventures of Col. L. A. Norton, by Lewis Adelbert Norton (HTML at LOC)
Westward America (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1942), by Howard R. Driggs and William Henry Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
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 (A H. Clark Company, 1906), by John Woodhouse Audubon, Frank Heywood Hodder, and Maria Rebecca Audubon (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography and reminiscences of Sarah J. Cummins. (Walla Walla Bulletin, 1920), by Sarah J. Cummins (page images at HathiTrust)
The splendid wayfaring : the story of the exploits and adventures of Jedediah Smith and his comrades, the Ashley-Henry men, discoverers and explorers of the great central route from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, 1822-1831 (Macmillan Company, 1920), by John Gneisenau Neihardt (page images at HathiTrust)
Wagons west. 1843. Old Oregon trail centennial. 1943. ([Salem, 1943), by Oregon. Old Oregon trail centennial commission, Walter E. Meacham, and Philip Hammon Parrish (page images at HathiTrust)
The Diary of Basil N. Longworth [!] Oregon pioneer. (Historical Records Survey, 1938), by Basil Nelson Longsworth and Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Oregon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A journal of the Birmingham emigrating company; the record of a trip from Birmingham, Iowa, to Sacramento, California, in 1850 ([Legal printing company], 1928), by Leander Vaness Loomis, Edgar M. Ledyard, Randolph B. Marcy, and William Clayton (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the sufferings and hardships of Capt. Parker H. French's overland expedition to California, which left New York City, May 13th, 1850, and arrived at San Francisco, Dec. 14. (Reprinted by the Cadmus book shop, 1916), by William Miles (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of a trip to California, across the continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the summer of 1850 (The Cadmus Book Shop, 1920), by C. W. Smith and R. W. G. Vail (page images at HathiTrust)
John Udell Journal, kept during a trip across the plains (N. A. Kovach, 1946), by John Udell (page images at HathiTrust)
Covered wagon days; a journey across the plains in the sixties, and pioneer days in the Northwest (The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1929), by Albert Jerome Dickson and Arthur Jerome Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)
In the early days along the overland trail in Nebraska territory, in 1852. (Franklin Hudson publishing company, 1905), by Gilbert L. Cole and Mrs. A. S. Hardy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Overland route to California; description of the route, via Council Bluffs, Iowa (N. A. Kovach, 1946), by Andrew Child (page images at HathiTrust)
Capt. W. F. Drannan, chief of scouts, as pilot to emigrant and government trains, across the plains of the wild West of fifty years ago. (T. W. Jackson publishing company, 1910), by William F. Drannan (page images at HathiTrust)
A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse. ([Philadelphia, Press of Globe printing house], 1888), by Thaddeus Stevens Kenderdine (page images at HathiTrust)
De Québec à Victoria (L.J. Demers & frère, 1893), by A. B. Routhier (page images at HathiTrust)
An excursion to California over the prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada. : With a stroll through the diggings adn ranches of that country. (Chapman and Hall, 1851), by William Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
Death Valley in '49; an 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. (Hebberd, 1929), by William Lewis Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
The overland trail; the epic path of the pioneers to Oregon (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1930), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the expedition of E.F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853 (Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854), by Gwinn Harris Heap, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, and Grambo & Co Lippincott (page images at HathiTrust)
Echoes of the past about California (R. R. Donnelley & sons co., 1928), by John Bidwell, Milo Milton Quaife, and John Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (G. P. Putnam, 1897), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean to ocean. : Sandford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872. Being a diary kept during a journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with the expedition of the engineer-in-chief of the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial railways (J. Campbell & son;, 1873), by George Monro Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
On the trail of the pioneers, romance, tragedy and triumph of the path of empire (George H. Doran company, 1920), by John T. Faris (page images at HathiTrust)
Overland journey to California : Journal of James Bennett whose party left New Harmony in 1850 and crossed the plains and mountains until the golden West was reached. (Ye Galleon Press, 1987), by James Bennett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The road to Oregon, a chronicle of the great emigrant trail (Longmans, Green, 1929), by William J. Ghent (page images at HathiTrust)
The Overland Trail. (Bobbs-Merrill, 1947), by Jay Monaghan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The first overland mail, Butterfield trail ... (Printed by the Roycrofters, 1940), by Walter B. Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
The overland stage to California. Personal reminiscences and authentic history of the great overland stage line and pony express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. (Topeka, Kan., 1901), by Frank Albert Root and William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (Carey, Lea. & Blanchard, 1836), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
The Butterfield overland mail (Huntington library, 1942), by Waterman Lilly Ormsby, Josephine M. Bynum, Lyle Henry Wright, and Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Travels in the interior of America, in the years 1809, 1810, and 1811; : including a description of upper Louisiana, together with the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and western territories, and containing remarks and observations useful to persons emigrating to those countries. (Printed for the author, by Smith and Galway, and published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London., 1817), by John Bradbury and John Bywater (page images at HathiTrust)
The Ashley-Smith explorations and the discovery of a central route to the Pacific, 1822-1829 (The Arthur H. Clark company, 1918), by Harrison Clifford Dale, Harrison G. Rogers, Jedediah Strong Smith, and William Henry Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
Narrative of a tour from the state of Indiana to the Oregon territory in the years 1841-2 (The Cadmus Book Shop, 1921), by Joseph Williams and James Carlton Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
The great trek (Powell Pub. Co., 1931), by Owen Cochran Coy (page images at HathiTrust)
Scenes of earlier days in crossing the Plains to Oregon and experiences of Western life. (Quadrangle Books, 1962), by Charles Howard Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
The march of the mounted riflemen : first United States military expedition to travel the full length of the Oregon trail from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Vancouver, May to October, 1849 as recorded in the journals of Major Osborne Cross and George Gibbs and the offical report of Colonel Loring (Clark, 1940), by Osborne Cross, Raymond W. Settle, William Wing Loring, and George Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust)
A Quaker forty-miner : the adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American frontier (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Charles Edward Pancoast and Anna Paschall Hannum (page images at HathiTrust)
A pioneer of 1850, George Willis Read, 1819-1880; the record of a journey overland from Independence, Missouri, to Hangtown (Placerville), California, in the spring of 1850, with a letter from the diggings in October of the same year and an account of a journey from New York to California, via Panama, in 1862, capture by the Confederate raider Alabama, etc., and a visit to the Nevada silver mining district in 1863 (Little, Brown, and Co., 1927), by George Willis Read and Georgia Willis Read (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of travels from St. Josephs to Oregon : with observations of that country, together with some description of California, its agricultural interests, and a full description of its gold mines (Biobooks, 1955), by Riley Root (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The land between Dr. James Schiel's account of the Gunnison-Beckwith expedition into the West, 1853-1854. (Westernlore Press, 1957), by Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm 1813- Schiel, William Swilling Wallace, J. Schiel, and Frederick W Bachmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the plains in forty-nine (Lakeside Press, 1948), by Reuben Cole Shaw and Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
The emigrant's guide to California (Princeton university press, 1932), by Joseph E. Ware and John Caughey (page images at HathiTrust)
The gold rush trail and the road to Oregon. (Doubleday, 1963), by Todd Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters home; the story of Ann Arbor's forty-niners. (Ann Arbor Publishers, 1960), by Russell E. Bidlack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sporting excursions in the Rocky Mountains, including a journey to Columbia River, and a visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c. (H. Colburn, 1840), by John Kirk Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
The experiences of a Forty-niner during thirty-four years' residence in California and Australia (The Williams publishing company, 1888), by Charles D. Ferguson and Frederick T. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
An overland journey, from New York to San Francisco in the summer of 1859 (C. M. Saxton, Barker & co.;, 1860), by Horace Greeley (page images at HathiTrust)
The city of the saints, and across the Rocky mountains to California. (Harper & brothers., 1862), by Richard Francis Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
A journey to Great-Salt-Lake City (W. Jeffs, 1861), by Jules Remy and Julius Brenchley (page images at HathiTrust)
The ox team : or the old Oregon Trail, 1852-1906 (The author, 1906), by Ezra Meeker (page images at HathiTrust)
The Ashley-Smith explorations and the discovery of a central route to the Pacific, 1822-1829 (The Arthur H. Clark company, 1941), by Harrison Clifford Dale, Harrison G. Rogers, Jedediah Strong Smith, and William Henry Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M., in the years 1835, '36, and '37 : containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, productions of the country, and the numbers, manners, and customs of the natives ; with a map of Oregon Territory (Mack, Andrus, & Woodruff, 1842), by Samuel Parker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
A visit to Salt Lake: being a journey across the plains, and a residence in the Mormon settlements at Utah. (Smith, Elder, and co., 1857), by William Chandless (page images at HathiTrust)
Westward by rail; the new route to the East. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1870), by W. Fraser Rae (page images at HathiTrust)
The autobiography of Theodore Edgar Potter. (Rumford press, 1913), by Theodore Edgar Potter and George C. Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
To California over the Santa Fé trail. (Chicago ; Passenger department ; Santa Fe, 1914), by C. A. Higgins and Topeka Atchison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky mountains (J.C. Derby & Co.;, 1846), by Samuel Parker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
Life-story of Gershom and Elizabeth Day (American Baptist Publication Society, 1895), by M. E. D. Trowbridge, Zelotes Grenell, and American Baptist Publication Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Way sketches; containing incidents of travel across the plains from St. Joseph to California in 1850 (E. Eberstadt, 1926), by Lorenzo Sawyer and Edward Eberstadt (page images at HathiTrust)
The gold seekers of '49; a personal narrative of the Overland Trail and adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854. (Standard Book Co., 1917), by Kimball Webster and George Waldo Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
A day with the cow column in 1843 (Printed for the Caxton club, 1934), by Jesse A. Applegate, Joseph Schafer, Jesse Applegate Applegate, and Caxton Club (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains (The author, Mack, Andrus & Woodruff, printers, 1840), by Samuel Parker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
The overlanders of '62 (printed by C.F. Banfield, printer of the king's most excellent majesty, 1931), by Mark Sweeten Wade, John Hosie, and Provincial Archives of British Columbia (page images at HathiTrust)
Overland from Indiana to Oregon : the Dinwiddie journal (Missoula [Mont.] : State University of Montany, 1928), by David Dinwiddie, Margaret Charlotte Booth, and John Dinwiddie (page images at HathiTrust)
The queen's highway from ocean to ocean. (S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887), by Stuart Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
The lost trappers : a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains : together with a short description of California : also, some account of the fur trade, especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains (H.M. Rulison ;, 1855), by David H Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
Narrative of a journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c.; with a scientific appendix. (H. Perkins;, 1839), by John Kirk Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
Hepah, California! The journal of Cave Johnson Couts from Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico to Los Angeles, California, during the years 1848-1849. (Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1961), by Cave Johnson Couts and Henry F. Dobyns (page images at HathiTrust)
The narrative of Samuel Hancock, 1845-1860: (Calcutta [etc.] G.G. Harrap & company, ltd., 1927), by Samuel Hancock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Kilgore journal of an overland journey to California in the year 1850 (Hastings House, 1949), by William H 1817 or 18- Kilgore and Joyce Rockwood Muench (page images at HathiTrust)
The prairie and overland traveller; a companion for emigrants, traders, travellers, hunters, and soldiers traversing great plains and prairies (S. Low, son, and co., 1860), by Randolph B. Marcy (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the plains in 1850 (Printed for the Caxton club, 1930), by John Steele, Andrew Lindsay, and Joseph Schafer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Beyond the Mississippi : from the great river to the great ocean : life and adventure on the prairies, mountains, and Pacific coast ... 1857-1867 (American Pub. Co., 1867), by Albert D. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
Ox-team days on the Oregon trail (World book company, 1927), by Ezra Mecker and Howard R. Driggs (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Donner party : a tragedy of the Sierra (A. Carlisle & Co., printers, 1927), by C. F. McGlashan (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten years in Oregon. Travels and adventures of Doctor E. White and lady west of the Rocky Mountains; with incidents of two sea voyages via. Sandwich Islands around Cape Horn; containing also a brief history of the missions and settlement of the country--origin of the provisional government--number and customs of the Indians--incidents witnessed while traversing and residing in the territory--description of the soil, production and climate of the country. (Mack, Andrus, & co., printers, 1848), by A. J. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
A journal of travel (Champoeg Press, 1954), by E. S. McComas (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains (Ye Galleon Press, 1985), by Joel Palmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Life on the plains and among the diggings. (University Microfilms, 1966), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Unfortunate emigrants : narratives of the Donner Party (Utah State University Press, 1996), by Kristin Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes concerning the Kellogg's. (Battle Creek, Mich., 1927), by M. G. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska. ([U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service], 1958), by Merrill J. Mattes (page images at HathiTrust)
The Overland migrations : settlers to Oregon, California, and Utah (The Service :, 1980), by David Lavender and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
Handcarts to Zion, the story of a unique western migration, 1856-1860, with contemporary journals, accounts, reports; and rosters of members of the ten handcart companies (A. H. Clark Co., 1960), by Le Roy Reuben Hafen and Ann Woodbury Hafen (page images at HathiTrust)
Pictures of gold rush California (Lakeside Press ;, 1949), by Milo Milton Quaife, R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company, and Ill.) Lakeside Press (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
From the west to the west; across the plains to Oregon ... (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1905), by Abigail Scott Duniway, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and A.C. McClurg & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
2000 miles on horseback : Santa Fé and back : a summer tour through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico, in the year 1866 (Hurd and Houghton, 1868), by James F. Meline (page images at HathiTrust)
The ox team; or, The old Oregon Trail, 1852-1906; an account of the author's trip across the plains, from the Missouri River to Puget Sound, at the age of twenty-two, with an ox and cow team in 1852, and of his return with an ox team in the year 1906, at the age of seventy-six ... (The Author, 1907), by Ezra Meeker (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the Rocky Mountains, from New York to California: with a visit to the celebrated Mormon colony at the Great Salt Lake. (Simms and M'Intyre, 1852), by William Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
Shoshonean peoples and the overland trails : frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849-1869 (Utah State University Press, 2007), by Dale L. Morgan, Gregory E. Smoak, and Richard L. Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, overland. A series of letters by Demas Barnes, describing a trip from New York to San Francisco, thence home, by Acapulco, and the isthmus of Panama. (D. Van Nostrand, 1866), by Demas Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the plains (Bacon & Co., 1875), by Charles A. Sumner and San Francisco Dashaway Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
Recollections of a California pioneer. (The Neale Publishing Company, 1917), by Carlisle S. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
The Great Salt Lake trail (Crane & Company, 1914), by Henry Inman and Buffalo Bill (page images at HathiTrust)
A journal of the overland route to California & the gold mines (Dawson's Book Shop, 1950), by Lorenzo D. Aldrich, Glen Dawson, Plantin Press, and Dawson's Book Shop (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria. (Binfords & Mort, 1951), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
A tramp across the continent (C. Scribner's Sons, 1892), by Charles Fletcher Lummis (page images at HathiTrust)
Crossing the plains, days of '57; a narrative of early emigrant travel to California by the ox-team method (Sunset publishing house, 1915), by Wm. Audley Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean to ocean. Sandford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872 .... (S. Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1873), by George Monro Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
In to the Yukon (The R. Clarke co., 1905), by William Seymour Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
Life and adventures of Col. L.A. Norton (Pacific Press Pub. House, 1887), by L. A. Norton and Pacific Press Publishing House (page images at HathiTrust)
The heart of the continent : a record of travel across the plains and in Oregon, with an examination of the Mormon principle (Hurd and Houghton ;, 1870), by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Donner party, a tragedy of the Sierra (A. Carlisle, 1918), by C. F. McGlashan (page images at HathiTrust)
Samuel Hancock's Thirteen years on the northwest coast. (1923), by Samuel Hancock and George Verne Blue (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The first overland mail, Butterfield trail, St. Louis to San Francisco, 1858-1861. (Printed by the Roycrofters, 1940), by Walter Barnes Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
Crossing the plains; an account of the George Harter family's trip from Cass County, Michigan, to Marysville, California, in 1864. (Sacramento, 1957), by George Harter and Doris Harter Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
Life sketches of jayhawker of '49 (Printed by Nolta brothers], 1916), by Lorenzo Dow Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels in the great western prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky mountains, and in the Oregon territory. (Greeley & McElrath, 1843), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
Gold country, 1828-1858. (Naylor Co., 1958), by Elma Dill Russell Spencer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Scotts Bluff National Monument (U. S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Division of Publications, 1958), by Merrill J. Mattes and United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (page images at HathiTrust)
How many miles from St. Jo? The log of Sterling B. F. Clark, a forty-niner, with comments (Priv. print., 1929), by Sterling B. F. 1825-1852 Clark, James Phelan, and Ella Sterling Mighels (page images at HathiTrust)
A journey to California, with observations about the country, climate and the route to this country (J.H. Nash, printer, 1937), by John Bidwell, John Henry Nash, Herbert Ingram Priestley, and Bancroft Library (page images at HathiTrust)
A trip across the plains, and life in California. (Bio-books, 1955), by George Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
Death Valley in '49. (University Microfilms, 1894), by William Lewis Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
Central route to the Pacific. (Arthur H. Clark Co., 1957), by Gwinn Harris Heap (page images at HathiTrust)
Echoes of the past. (Citadel Press, 1962), by John Bidwell (page images at HathiTrust)
Map of the emigrant road from Independence, Mo., to St. Francisco, California (California historical society, 1945), by T. H. Jefferson and George Rippey Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
The Journal of Madison Berryman Moorman, 1850-1851 (California Historical Society, 1948), by Madison Berryman Moorman, Irene Dakin Paden, and Louise Parks Banes (page images at HathiTrust)
Overland to California in 1847 : letters written en route to California, west from Independence, Missouri, to the editor of the Joliet signal (Black Cat Press, 1937), by Chester Ingersoll, Alfred Sterges, Douglas C. McMurtrie, and Black Cat Press (page images at HathiTrust)
Following Lewis and Clark across the Clearwater National Forest. (Clearwater National Forest, 1971), by United States Forest Service (page images at HathiTrust)
A journey to Great-Salt-Lake City : by Jules Remy and Julius Brenchley; with a sketch of the history, religion, and customs of the Mormons, and an introduction on the religious movement in the United States. (AMS Press, 1972), by Jules Remy (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria : or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (R. Bentley, 1839), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
To the Pacific & Mexico, by A.K. McClure. (J.B. Lippincott company, 1901), by Alexander K. McClure (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The lost trappers; a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky mountains; together with a short description of California: also, some account of the fur trade, especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky mountains. (Hurst & Company, 1892), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
In to the Yukon (Press of Jennings & Graham, 1909), by William Seymour Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
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. (The Pacific tree and vine co., 1894), by William Lewis Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
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, 1852; 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. (Seattle, Wash., 1916), by Ezra Meeker (page images at HathiTrust)
Personal experiences on the Oregon trail sixty years ago (McAdoo printing co.], 1912), by Ezra Meeker (page images at HathiTrust)
Ventures and adventures of Ezra Meeker; or, Sixty years of frontier life; fifty-six years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team in 1852, and his return trip in 1906; his cruise on Puget sound in 1853, and his trip through the Natchess pass in 1854; over the Chilcoot pass and flat-boating on the Yukon in 1898. The Oregon trail (Rainier Printing Co., 1909), by Ezra Meeker (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Donner party : A tragedy of the Sierra (H. S. Crocker co., 1902), by C. F. McGlashan (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the plains and over the divide : a mule train journey from East to West in 1862, and incidents connected therewith : with map and illustrations (Broadway Pub. Co., 1906), by Randall H. Hewitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria; or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. (Baudry's European Library [etc.], 1836), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
[The overland immigration to California in 1841 (1926), by George Harold Brereton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ocean to ocean : Sandford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872 (Radisson Society of Canada, 1925), by George Monro Grant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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. (Rio Grande Press, 1969), by John Woodhouse Audubon and Maria Rebecca Audubon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Death Valley in '49. (Borden Pub. Co., 1949), by William Lewis Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
Two thousand miles on horseback : a summer tour to the plains, the Rocky Mountains, and New Mexico (American News Co., 1873), by James F. Meline (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten years in Oregon. Travels and adventures of Dr. E. White and lady, west of the Rocky Mountains; with incidents of two sea voyages via Sandwich Islands around Cape Horn, containing, also, a brief history of the missions and settlement of the country ... description of the soil, production and climate. (Andrus, Gauntlett, & Co., 1850), by A. J. Allen and Elijah White (page images at HathiTrust)
On a donkey's hurricane deck : a tempestuous 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 (I.H. Blanchard Co., 1902), by R. Pitcher Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
A sketch of an overland route to British Columbia ... (W.C. Chewett & Co., Printers, 1862), by Henry Youle Hind and Sandford Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. (Lippincott, 1873), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria : or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (R. Bentley, 1836), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. (G.P. Putnam, 1849), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the plains and among the diggings : being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California ; with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and the future of the great West (Milner, Orton & Mulligan, 1854), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust)
Between two oceans, or, Sketches of American travel (Hurst and Blackett, 1884), by Iza Duffus Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
Recollections of a pioneer (Press of Nelson-Hanne Print. Co., 1912), by J. W. Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
California '46 to '88 (The Bancroft company, 1888), by Jacob Wright Harlan (page images at HathiTrust)
The Queen's highway from Ocean to Ocean (S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888), by Stuart Cumberland and Canadian Pacific Railway (page images at HathiTrust)
T. Turnbull's travels from the United States across the plains to California. (Published for the Society, 1914), by Thomas Turnbull, Reuben Gold Thwaites, and Frederic L. Paxson (page images at HathiTrust)
Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County : embellished by nearly six hundred engravings--portraits of pioneer settlers, prominent citizens, business, official and professional--ancient and modern views, etc.; nine-tenth's of a century of solid local history--pioneer incidents, interesting events--industrial, commercial, financial and educational progress, biographies, etc. (Beacon Job Department, 1892), by Samuel A. Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
Wanderungen über die Felsengebirge in das Oregon-Gebiet ... (G. Mayer, 1846), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham and Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels in the great western prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky mountains, and in the Oregon territory. (R. Bentley, 1843), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
Extracts from the diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858. (Printed privately, 1920), by William C. Lobenstine and Belle W. Lobenstine (page images at HathiTrust)
Days on the road : crossing the plains in 1865 (Burr Printing House, 1902), by Sarah Raymond Herndon (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria : or Avontuurlyde reize naar en over het klipgebergte von Noord-Amerika, ondernomen in het belang der door den Heer J. J. Astor opgerigte peltery compagnie (A. Loosjes Pz., 1837), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria; oder, Geschichte einer Handelsexpedition jenseits der Rocky Mountains. (J. G. Cotta, 1838), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria : or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (H. G. Bohn, 1850), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. (G.P. Putnam, 1860), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
What I saw in California : being the journal of a tour by the emigrant route and south pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the continent of North America, the great desert basin, and through California, in the years 1846-1847 (D. Appleton ;, 1849), by Edwin Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
What I saw in California; being the journal of a tour, by the emigrant route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the continent of North America, the great desert basin, and through California, in the years, 1846-1847, with an appendix, containing accounts of the gold mines, various routes, outfit, etc., etc. (D. Appleton & Co., 1849), by Edwin Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
The pioneer trail (The Deseret News, 1913), by Alfred Lambourne (page images at HathiTrust)
A tramp across the continent. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1903), by Charles Fletcher Lummis (page images at HathiTrust)
Oregon trail (World Book Co., 1922), by Ezra Meeker, Howard R. Driggs, and Washington State Library. Classics in Washington History (page images at HathiTrust)
Wanderungen durch die Prairien und Wüsten des westlichen Nordamerika : vom Mississippi nach den Küsten der Südsee : im Gefolge der von der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten unter Lieutenant Whipple ausgesandten Expedition (Herman Mendelssohn, 1860), by Balduin Möllhausen, Alexander von Humboldt, Amiel Weeks Whipple, and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
Oregon expedition of Obadiah Oakly [i.e. Oakley] (Reprinted from the Peoria Register, 1914), by Obadiah Oakley (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions, in the years 1835, '36, and '37; containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, productions of the country, and the number, manners, and customs of the natives: with a map of Oregon Territory. (The author, 1840), by Samuel Parker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the American board of commissions for foreign missions, in the years 1835, '36, and '37; containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, productions of the country, and the numbers, manners, and customs of the natives: with a map of Oregon Territory (Mack, Andrus, and Woodruff, 1844), by Samuel Parker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
Tagebuch einer Reise über das Felsengebirge nach dem Oregongebiet (Walthersche Hofbuchhandlung, 1840), by Samuel Parker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the plains and among the diggings: being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and the future of the great West. (Milner, Orton and co., 1857), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten years in Oregon. Travels and adventures of Doctor E. White and lady, west of the Rocky mountains, with incidents of two sea voyages via Sandwich islands around cape Horn, containing, also, a brief history of the missions and settlement of the country ... description of the soil, production and climate. (Andrus, Gauntlett, & Co., 1850), by A. J. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the plains and among the diggings; being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and future of the great West. (C.M. Saxton, 1859), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Donner party : a tragedy of the Sierra (H. S. Crocker, 1907), by C. F. McGlashan (page images at HathiTrust)
Recollections of a '49er. A quaint and thrilling narrative of a trip across the plains, and life in the California gold fields during the stirring days following the discovery of gold in the far West (Hailman printing company, 1908), by Edward Washington McIlhany (page images at HathiTrust)
Tour of the St. Elmo's : from the Nutmeg state to the Golden Gate (Meriden Book-bindery, 1883), by E. B. Everitt (page images at HathiTrust)
The adventures of two Alabama boys (Paragon Press, 1912), by H. J. Crumpton and Washington Bryan Crumpton (page images at HathiTrust)
A journey beyond the Rocky mountains in 1835, 1836, and 1837. (W. & R. Chambers, 1841), by Samuel Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
"A pretty fair view of the eliphent"; or, Tell letters by Charles G. Hinman written during his trip overland from Groveland, Illinois, to California in 1849 and his adventures in the gold fields in 1849 and 1850. (Printed for E.D. Graff by G. Martin, 1960), by Charles G. Hinman and Colton Storm (page images at HathiTrust)
The California tragedy (Biobooks, 1945), by Jessy Quinn Thornton and Edwin Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
Recollections of pioneer and army life (Hudson Press, 1911), by Matthew H. Jamison (page images at HathiTrust)
The City of the saints, and across the Rocky Mountains to California (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861), by Richard Francis Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the plains to California in 1852; journal of Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell (The New York Public Library, 1915), by Lodisa Frizzell, Victor Hugo Paltsits, and New York Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria : or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (W. Galignani, 1836), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Left by the Indians, or Rapine, massacre and cannibalism on the Overland trail in 1860 : the personal narrative of (Edward Eberstadt, 1936), by Emeline L. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches and poems (s.n., 1920), by Walter Hinchman (page images at HathiTrust)
Early day stories; the overland trail; animals and birds that lived here; hunting stories; looking backward. (Huse Publishing Co., 1916), by A. J. Leach (page images at HathiTrust)
The old Oregon trail, the road which saved an empire. (The Old Oregon trail association, 1923), by Walter E. Meacham (page images at HathiTrust)
Elisha Brooks : the life-story of a California pioneer : written for his grandchildren to show them how the emigrants crossed the plains, and also what manner of person was their great grandmother. (Abbot-Brady Printing Corporations, 1922), by Elisha Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
John Hammond. Died May 29, 1889, at home, Crown Point, N.Y. Born August 17, 1827, at Crown Point, in the old house, now standing next West of his late residence. (P.F. Pettibone & Co., printers, 1890), by John Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography and reminiscences of Sarah J. Cummins ... (La Grande printing co., 1914), by Sarah J. Cummins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The journal of James Akin, Jr. ([University of Oklahoma, 1919), by James Akin and Edward Everett Dale (page images at HathiTrust)
The heart of the continent : a record of travel across the plains and in Oregon, with an examination of the Mormon principle (Hurd and Houghton, 1871), by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (page images at HathiTrust)
Overland journey to California, journal of James Bennett whose party left New Harmony in 1850 and crossed the plains and mountains until the golden West was reached. (Times Print, 1906), by James Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
Pioneer days (Murgotten's Press, 1915), by Mary Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
Experiences of a forty-niner ([s.n.], 1892), by Wm. G. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
Scharmann's overland journey to California, from the pages of a pioneer's diary ([n.p., 1918), by Hermann B. Scharmann, Erich W. Zimmermann, and Margaret Hoff Zimmermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Overland to California in 1849 (Butler & Bowman, Steam Book and Job Printers, 1877), by Joseph Sedgley (page images at HathiTrust)
Route and distances to Oregon and California, with a description of watering-places, crossings, dangerous Indians, etc, etc. (W. Greer, printer, 1846), by J M. Shively (page images at HathiTrust)
The California overland express: the longest stage-ride in the world. (London, 1865), by William Tallack (page images at HathiTrust)
Oregon, or A short history (A.H. Clark, 1905), by Benjamin Waterhouse, John Kirk Townsend, John B. Wyeth, and Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels in the Far Northwest, 1839-1846 (A.H. Clark, 1906), by Pierre-Jean de Smet, Thomas Jefferson Farnham, and Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
Ved Saltsøen; et besog hos Mormonerne i Utah. (F. Wøldife, 1858), by William Chandless and Jørgen W. Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
Adventures on the plains. ([San Francisco, 1856), by Charles Cardinell (page images at HathiTrust)
Overland journey from San Francisco to New York by way of the Salt Lake City. ([London], 1866), by Edmund Hope Verney (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes and sketches during an overland trip from New York to San Francisco, made on first opening of the Central and Union Pacific Railways, in May, 1869. (Albion Office, 1869), by James Walter (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the plains in '65. A youngter's journal from "Gotham" to "Pike's Peak" ... ([Lanning bros.], 1905), by Frank C. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
Mijne reize naar en door California. Dagverhaal eener emigranten-reis over het vasteland van Nord-Amerika, door de prairiën, woestenijen, het Rots-gebergte enz., bevattende tevens eene beschrijving der zeden en gewoonten van de verschillende, die gewesten bewonende volkeren (Gebroeders Diederichs, 1849), by Edwin Bryant and G. Francken (page images at HathiTrust)
Rocky Mountain adventures : bristling with animated details of fearful fights of American hunters with savage Indians, Mexican rancheros and beasts of prey ... (Hurst, 1885), by Edwin Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains : under the direction of the A. B. C. F. M. containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, production of the country, and the numbers, manners, and customs of the natives: With a map of Oregon Territory (Andrus, Woodruff, & Gauntlett ;, 1844), by Samuel Parker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
Table of distances measured along the route travelled by the expedition in 1849. ([n.p., 1849), by Howard Stansbury and United States. Engineering Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the contiment in a caravan; recollections of a journey from New York through the western wilderness and over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific in 1846... (Associated Publishers of American Records, 1907), by Joseph Aram and James Tompkins Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
Recollections of Benjamin Franklin Bonney (Koke-Tiffany, 1923), by B. F. Bonney and Fred Lockley (page images at HathiTrust)
Twice across the plains, 1849, 1856 (Press of Walter N. Brunt Co., 1906), by William J. Pleasants (page images at HathiTrust)
Protection afforded by volunteers of Oregon and Washington Territories to overland immigrants in 1854 : papers (s.n., 1859), by Oregon. Secretary and B. F. Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
By ox team to California; a narrative of crossing the plains in 1860 (Oakland Enquirer pub. Co., 1910), by Lavinia Honeyman Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
Tour du monde ([n.p.], 1860), by Richard Francis Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
Overland in forty-nine. The recollections of a Wolverine ranger after a lapse of forty-seven years. (The author, 1896), by Oliver Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
Expedition from Fort Abercrombie to Fort Benton. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to Resolution of House of 19th instant transmitting report of Captain J. L. Fisk, of the expedition to escort emigrants from Fort Abercrombie to Fort Benton, etc. ([Washington?, 1863), by James Liberty Fisk and United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
My garden of roses : or, The footnotes of life (Berkeley gazette?, 1913), by John I. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
Crossing the plains in the year of 1852 with ox teams (s.n.], 1915), by Mary Jane Long (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorial of citizens of the United States residing in the Valley of the Mississippi, praying that military escorts may be placed on the route between that valley and California, and a permanent military post established near the gold region in that Territory for the protection of emigrants (The Senate], 1849), by United States Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters of the Rambler : a trip across the continent (Country Life Press, 1921), by Francis B. Sanford (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the plains in 1853 (Ward, 1911), by D. B. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
Life's real romance (Printed by J.C. Graham, 1885), by R. A. N. Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
A travers le nouveau-monde. États-Unis et Canada; notes d'un touriste. (Goemaere, 1911), by Alphonse Moeller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1897), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Scenes of earlier days in crossing the plains to Oregon : and experiences of western life (J. T. Studdert, 1898), by Charles Howard Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. (Belford, 1880), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
The West from a car-window. (Harper & brothers, 1892), by Richard Harding Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
From ocean to ocean (American tract society, 1892), by Andrew Shiland (page images at HathiTrust)
Pilgrimage of Mary commandery, no. 36, K.T. of Pennsylvania to the twenty-fifth triennial conclave of the Grand encampment U.S. at Denver, Colorado. ([Thomson printing company], 1892), by Clifford P. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the plains and among the diggings; being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and future of the great West. (Miller, Orton & co., 1857), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust)
Three thousand miles through the rocky Mountains. (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1869), by Alexander Kelly McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes to accompany Keeler's map of the U.S. territory, from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, containing authentic information connected with the territories, and the different railroad routes to the Pacific Ocean. (Govt. Print. Off., 1868), by W. J. Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
Pen pictures of early western days ([Keokuk? Ia.], 1905), by Virginia Wilcox Ivins (page images at HathiTrust)
A tramp across the continent (C. Scribner's sons, 1892), by Charles Fletcher Lummis (page images at HathiTrust)
Early day stories (House publishing co., pref., 1916), by A. J. Leach (page images at HathiTrust)
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, overland. (D. Van Nostrand, 1866), by Demas Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
In to the Yukon (The R. Clarke company, 1904), by William Seymour Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria : or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (Lippincott, 1872), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Wanderungen durch die prairien und wüsten des westlichen Nordamerika vom Mississippi nach den küsten der Südsee (H. Mendelssohn, 1860), by Balduin Möllhausen, Alexander von Humboldt, and Amiel Weeks Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
The gold seekers of '49; a personal narrative of the overland trail and adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854. (Standard book company, 1917), by Kimball Webster and George Waldo Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria : or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (Worthington, 1890), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Beyond the Mississippi; from the great river to the great ocean. (American publishing company; [etc., etc.], 1867), by Albert D. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
Life sketches of a jayhawker of '49 (Printed by Nolta brothers], 1916), by L. Dow Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
Pilgrimage of Mary commandery no. 36, Knights templar of Pennsylvania to the Twenty-ninth triennial conclave of the Grand encampment U.S. at San Francisco, Cal. ([Made by Thomson printing company], 1904), by Clifford P. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse ... Illustrated with thirty-nine wood and photo-engravings. ([Philadelphia, Press of Globe printing house], 1888), by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (page images at HathiTrust)
An overland journey, from New York to San Francisco in the summer of 1859 (C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co. ;, 1860), by Horace Greeley (page images at HathiTrust)
By ox team to California; a narrative of crossing the plains in 1860 (Oakland Enquirer Pub. Co., 1910), by Lavinia Honeyman Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
Expedition to Oregon (Reprinted from the Peoria register, 1914), by Obadiah Oakley (page images at HathiTrust)
Overland journey to California, journal of James Bennett whose party left New Harmony in 1850 and crossed the plains and mountains until the golden West was reached. (Times print, 1906), by James Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
In to the Yukon (The R. Clarke co., 1905), by William Seymour Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
The experiences of a Forty-niner during thirty-four years' residence in California and Australia (The Williams publishing company, 1888), by Charles D. Ferguson and Frederick T. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
The Ashley-Smith explorations and the discovery of a central route to the Pacific, 1822-1829 (The Arthur H. Clark company, 1918), by Harrison Clifford Dale, Harrison G. Rogers, Jedediah Strong Smith, and William Henry Ashley (page images at HathiTrust)
Crossing the plains in '49 (Oakland, Cal., 1903), by G. W. Thissell (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria : or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
The City of the saints, and across the Rocky mountains to California. (Harper & brothers, 1862), by Richard Francis Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M. performed in the years 1835, '36, and '37 (The author, 1838), by Samuel Parker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
Diary of a journey from the Mississippi to the coasts of the Pacific with a United States government expedition (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858), by Balduin Möllhausen and Percy Sinnett (page images at HathiTrust)
The lost trappers; a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains; together with a short description of California; also, some account of the fur trade, expecially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia. By David H. Coyner. (J.A. & U.P. James, 1847), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria. (Putnam, 1895), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
The soul of America; an Oregon Iliad (The Press of the pioneers, inc., 1934), by Eva Emery Dye (page images at HathiTrust)
Over the Salt Lake Trail in the fall of '49. ([publisher not identified], 1957), by William B Lorton and Zamorano Club (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
California letters of William Gill : written in 1850 to his wife, Harriet Tarleton in Kentucky (Downs printing company, 1922), by William Gill and Eva Lee Turner Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography of George Meyer : Oregon, Missouri, across the plains with an ox team in 1849 : his success in the gold fields of California (The Open Door, 1908), by George Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
From Lewisburg (Pa.) to California in 1849 : notes from the diary of William H. Chamberlin (Historical Society of New Mexico and the University of New Mexico, 1945), by William Henry Chamberlin and Lansing Bartlett Bloom (page images at HathiTrust)
Overland to the gold fields of California in 1852 : the journal of John Hawkins Clark, expanded and revised from notes made during the journey (Topeka :, 1942), by John Hawkins Clark and Louise Barry (page images at HathiTrust)
Waterman Lily Ormsby II : his hitherto unpublished portrait, and a sketch of the sole passenger on the first Butterfield Overland Mail to California as special correspondent for the New York herald (Los Angeles Corral, Westerners, 1958), by Roscoe Platt Conkling (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Overland in 1849 from Missouri to California by the Platte River and the Salt Lake trail : an account from the letters of G.C. Pearson (Privately printed [at the Battledore Press], 1963), by G. C. Pearson, John B. Goodman, and Jessie H Goodman (page images at HathiTrust)
Early emigration to California, 1849-1850 ([M. Custer], 1928), by Wellman Packard and Milo Custer (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the plains in 1850 : [personal recollections of A.A. Enos] (A.F. Enos, 1905), by A. A Enos and A. F Enos (page images at HathiTrust)
Route and distances to Oregon and California : with a description of watering-places, crossings, dangerous Indians, etc, etc. (W. Greer, printer, 1846), by J. M Shively (page images at HathiTrust)
Beyond the Mississippi : from the great river to the great ocean : life and adventure on the prairies, mountains, and Pacific coast (American Pub. Co., 1885), by Albert D. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Donner party. : A tragedy of the Sierra (H.S. Crocker Co., printers, 1907), by C. F. McGlashan (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the plains and among the diggings : being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California : with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and future of the great West (C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1861), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust)
Following the pot of gold at the rainbow's end in the days of 1850 (E. Quinn, 1960), by Susan Thompson Lewis Parrish, Leonore Rowland, and Virginia V Root (page images at HathiTrust)
The great California trail in 1849 : wayside notes of an argonaut (Steuben Courier, 1882), by Andel J. McCall (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography and Writings of J. P. Dameron. (s.n., 1877), by J. P. Dameron (page images at HathiTrust)
Life and adventures of Col. L.A. Norton. (Pacific press publishing house, 1887), by L. A. Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
March to South Pass : Lieutenant William B. Franklin's journal of the Kearny Expedition of 1845 (Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by William Buel Franklin and Frank N. Schubert (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. (G. P. Putnam, 1868), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Voyage au pays des Mormons : relation--géographie--histoire naturelle--histoire--théologie--moeurs et coutumes (E. Dentu, 1860), by Jules Remy and Julius L. Brenchley (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, or, Ancedotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (G.P. Putnam, 1851), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Vandringer gjennem det vestlige Nordamerikas : prairier og udørkener fra Mississippi til Sydhavets kyster (P.G. Philipsen, 1862), by Balduin Möllhausen and Alexander von Humboldt (page images at HathiTrust)
Reis van den Mississippi naar de kusten van den Grooten Oceaan (A. E. C. Van Someren, 1858), by Balduin Möllhausen, Hendrik Carel Michaëlis, Alexander von Humboldt, and Amiel Weeks Whipple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Days on the road : crossing the plains in 1865 (Burr Printing House, 1902), by Sarah Raymond Herndon (page images at HathiTrust)
Great trans-continental railroad guide, containing a full and authentic description of over five hundred mountains, lakes, rivers, sulfur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, summer resorts ... Union Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad of California ... (Black Letter Press, 1971), by H. Wallace Atwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The prairie traveler : a hand-book for overland expeditions : with maps, illustrations, and intineraries of the principal routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific. (N. Mumey, 1959), by Randolph Barnes Marcy (page images at HathiTrust)
Early day stories; the overland trail; animals and birds that lived here; hunting stories; looking backward. (Huse publishing co., 1916), by A. J. Leach (page images at HathiTrust)
A boy on the plains and in the Rockies : and other stories (Gorham Press, 1917), by William Allen Greer (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes by the way; memoranda of a journey across the Plains, from Dundee, Ill., to Olympia, W. T., May 7 to November 3, 1862. (Printed at the Office of the Washington Standard, 1863., 1955), by Randall Henry Hewitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, 1827-1905. (The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1914), by Isaac Jones Wistar (page images at HathiTrust)
California, as it is and was : a journey overland from Boston to the Golden State and return (DeWolfe, Fiske, 1887), by William Henry Thomes (page images at HathiTrust)
Pioneer life (Published by the author, 1908), by Samuel Handsaker (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M., performed in the years 1835, '36, and '37; containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, and productions; and the number, manners, and customs of the natives, with a map of the Oregon Territory. (Ross & Haines, 1967), by Samuel Parker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
Scharmann's landreise nach Californien. (Priv. print., 1908), by Hermann B. 1838- Scharmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Reminiscences of a trip across the plains in 1846 and early days in California (Whitaker and Ray, 1904), by Luella Dickenson (page images at HathiTrust)
In to the Yukon (R. Clarke, 1904), by William Seymour Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoir to accompany the map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean : giving a brief account of each of the exploring expeditions since A.D. 1800, with a detailed description of the method adopted in compiling the general map (s.n.], 1859), by G. K. Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
Alonzo Delano's California correspondence; being letters hitherto uncollected from the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader and the New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852 (Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1952), by Alonzo Delano and Irving McKee (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
An overland journey, from New York to San Francisco, in the summer of 1859 (C. M. Saxton, Barker & co., 1860), by Horace Greeley (page images at HathiTrust)
Three thousand miles through the Rocky Mountains (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1869), by Alexander K. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography and reminiscences of Sarah J. Cummins ... (The A. H. Clark company, 1914), by Sarah J. Lemmon Cummins (page images at HathiTrust)
Story of the old Oregon trail, the world's most historic highway and the road to America's scenic wonderland. (The Old Oregon Trail Association, 1922), by Walter E. Meacham (page images at HathiTrust)
Great trans-continental railroad guide, containing a full and authentic description of over five hundred cities, towns, villages ... over the Union Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad of Cal. ... (Grofutt & Eaton, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. (Putnam, 1897), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
A tramp across the continent (C. Scribner's sons, 1892), by Charles Fletcher Lummis (page images at HathiTrust)
The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the author's trip across the plains, from the Missouri River to Puget Sound, at the age of twenty-two, with an ox and cow team in 1852, and of his return with an ox team in the year 1906, at the age of seventy-six. (New York, 1907), by Ezra Meeker (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean to ocean. (S. Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873), by George Monro Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
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. (The Pacific tree and vine co., 1894), by William Lewis Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
Afoot and alone : a walk from sea to sea by the southern route : adventures and observations in southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc. / by Stephen Powers. (Columbian Book Co., 1884), by Stephen Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
A tramp across the continent (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Charles Fletcher Lummis (page images at HathiTrust)
A ride over the Rocky mountains to Oregon and California. With a glance at some of the tropical islands, including the West Indies and the Sandwich isles. (R. Bentley, 1852), by Henry J. Coke (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria (G. P. Putnams̓ Sons, 1836), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Scenery of the plains, mountains and mines (Princeton University Press, 1932), by Franklin Langworthy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Reminiscences of an old timer : a recital of the actual events, incidents, trials, hardships, vicissitudes, adventures, perils, and escapes of a pioneer, hunter, miner and scout of the Pacific northwest ; together with his later experiences in official and business capacities, and a brief description of the resources, beauties and advantages of the new northwest ; the several Indian wars, anecdotes, etc. (Review and Herald, 1889), by George Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
The lost trappers; a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains (H. M. Rulison, 1855), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
Scenery of the plains, mountains and mines, or, A diary kept upon the overland route to California by way of the Great Salt lake : travels in the cities, mines and agricultural districts : embracing the return by the Pacific ocean and Central America in the years 1850, '51, '52 and '53 (J.C. Sprague, 1855), by Franklin Langworthy (page images at HathiTrust)
The Mormon migration to Utah, 1830-1947 (1918), by Andrew Love Neff and Berkeley. Department of History University of California (page images at HathiTrust)
The lost trappers a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains : together with a short description of California : also, some account of the fur trade, especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains (E.D. Truman, 1850), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
Presidential address before the Royal Society of Canada, with papers from the Transactions (Dawson, 1890), by Sandford Fleming and Royal Society of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels in the great western prairies the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon territory (Greeley & McElrath, 1843), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
Report from a select committee of the House of Representatives, on the overland emigration route from Minnesota to British Oregon with an appendix. (s.n.], 1858), by J. R. Wakefield and United States House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, of, Avontuurlijke reise naar en over het Klipgebergte van Noord-Amerika ondernomen in het belang der door den Heer J.J. Astor opgerigte peltery compagnie (De Wed. A. Loosjes, 1837), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
A journey beyond the Rocky Mountains in 1835, 1836, and 1837 (W. and R. Chambers, 1841), by Samuel Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
Sources of the history of Oregon continuation of the contributions of the Department of Economics and History of the University of Oregon by the Oregon Historical Society (University Press, 1899), by F. G. Young and Nathaniel J. Wyeth (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean to ocean Sandford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872 (Belford, 1877), by George Monro Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
The lost trappers a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains : together with a short description of California : also, some account of the fur trade especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains (Hurst, 1847), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean to ocean Sandford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872 : being a diary kept during a journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the expedition of the engineer-in-chief of the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial railways (J. Campbell;, 1873), by George Monro Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
Overland to Cariboo an eventful journey of Canadian pioneers to the gold-fields of British Columbia in 1862 (W. Briggs;, 1896), by Margaret McNaughton (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (G.P. Putman, 1849), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (R. Bentley, 1836), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria (T. Crowell, 1842), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (H.G. Bohn, 1850), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Geschichte einer Handelsexpedition jenseits der Rocky Mountains (J.G. Cotta, 1838), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
De Québec à Victoria (s.n.], 1893), by A. B. Routhier (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria voyages au delà des montagnes Rocheuses (s.n.], 1843), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
The lost trappers a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains : together with a short description of California : also, some account of the fur trade especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains (J.A. & U.P. James, 1847), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (G.P. Putman's Sons, 1868), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the continent a stage ride over the plains to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons and the Pacific states, in the summer of 1865, with speaker Colfax (S. Bowles;, 1869), by Samuel Bowles (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M., performed in the years 1835, '36, and '37, containing a description of the geography, geology, climate and productions, and the number, manners, and customs of the natives, with a map of Oregon Territory (The Author, 1838), by Samuel Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M. in the years 1835, '36, and '37 containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, productions of the country, and the numbers, manners, and customs of the natives, with a map of Oregon Territory (Mack, Andrus & Woodruff;, 1842), by Samuel Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
An exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains in North America under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions : performed in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837 (s.n.], 1840), by Samuel Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
Short history of a long journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the region of the Pacific by land (Printed for J.B. Wyeth, 1833), by John B. Wyeth (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (F.F. Lovell, 1800), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
The city of the saints and across the Rocky Mountains to California (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861), by Richard F. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains to the mouth of the Columbia River made during the years 1845 and 1846 containing minute descriptions of the valleys of the Willamette, Umpqua and Clamet; a general description of Oregon Territory ... (J.A. & U.P. James, 1852), by Joel Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M. containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, productions of the country ... with a map of Oregon Territory (Andrus, Woodruff & Gauntlett, 1844), by Samuel Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
De Québec à Victoria (s.n.], 1893), by A. B. Routhier (page images at HathiTrust)
The lost trappers a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains : together with a short description of California : also, some account of the fur trade especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains (Hurst, 1847), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean to ocean Sandford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872 (Rose, Belford Pub. Co., 1879), by George Monro Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
Pen pictures of early western days (s.n.], 1908), by Virginia Wilcox Ivins (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean to ocean. Sanford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872. (Rose Belford Pub. Co., 1879), by George Monro Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains to the mouth of the Columbia River : made during the years 1845 and 1846 (Arthur H. Clark Co., 1906), by Joel Palmer, Reuben Gold Thwaites, and Henry Harmon Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean to ocean. Sanford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872. (R. Worthington, 1877), by George Monro Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
A tramp across the continent. (C. Scribner's sons, 1898), by Charles Fletcher Lummis (page images at HathiTrust)
Fifteen thousand miles by stage : a woman's unique experience during thirty years of path finding and pioneering from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico (Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Carrie Adell Strahorn and Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
By track and trail; a journey through Canada. (W.H. Allen & co., lim., 1891), by Edward Roper (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean to ocean. Sanford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872. Being a diary kept during a journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the expedition of the engineer-in-chief of the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial railways. (Toronto., 1877), by George Monro Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
Adventures on the plains ... (California historical society, 1922), by Charles Cardinell and California Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Moorish chronicles. (Collier, 1904), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of a forty-niner (Associated Publishers of American Records, 1907), by John Evans Brown and Katie E. Brown Blood (page images at HathiTrust)
A trip to California in 1853 ... Recollections of a gold seeking trip by ox train across the plains and mountains by an old Illinois pioneer. (Le Roy Journal Printing Company, 1915), by Washington Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth (University Press, 1899), by Nathaniel J. Wyeth, Frederic G. Young, and Frederick George Young (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the plains in '65 : a youngster's journal from "Gotham" to "Pike's Peak" ... ([Lanning Bros.], 1905), by Frank C. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
George Edward Hayes : a memorial ([s.n.], 1882), by George Edward Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
Old Oregon Trail 1852-1906 (The Author, 1907), by Ezra Meeker (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. (Putnam, 1895), by Washington Irving and Radcliffe College. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Donner party : a tragedy of the Sierra (A.L. Bancroft & Co., 1881), by C. F. McGlashan and A.L. Bancroft & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
To California over the Santa Fe trail (Passenger Dept., Santa Fe, 1904), by C. A. Higgins and Topeka Atchison (page images at HathiTrust)
The gold rush to California, 1848 to 1850 (1926), by Ruth Louise Rickard (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of an overland journey to Oregon made in the year 1849 (Ye Galleon Press, 1985), by William J. Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
What I saw in California: being the journal of a tour, by the emigrant route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the continent of North America, the great desert basin, and through California. in the years, 1846-1847 ... (D. Appleton & company ;, 1849), by Edwin Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten years in Oregon. Travels and adventures of Doctor E. White and lady, west of the Rocky mountains; with incidents of two sea voyages via. Sandwich islands around Cape Horn; containing also a brief history of the missions and settlement of the country--origin of the provisional government--number and customs of the Indians--incidents witnessed while traversing and residing in the territory--description of the soil, production and climate of the country. (Mack, Andrus, & Co., printers, 1848), by A. J. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
Three thousand miles through the Rocky Mountains. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1869), by Alexander K. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
The lost trappers; a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains; together with a short description of California: also, some account of the fur trade, especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellowstone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains. (Anderson, Gates & Wright, 1859), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
California. A trip across the plains, in the spring of 1850, being a daily record of incidents of the trip...and containing valuable information to emigrants... (Kent & Norman, and J.R. Nunemacher, 1850), by James Abbey (page images at HathiTrust)
Overland route to California, description of the route, via Council Bluffs, Iowa; keeping the north side of the Platte River...thence over the South Pass...over the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento Valley. (Daily sentinel steam power press, pub. by C. Child, 1852), by Andrew Child (page images at HathiTrust)
A trip across the plains, and life in California; embracing a description of the overland route; its natural curiosities, rivers, lakes, springs, mountains, indian tribes, &c. &c.; the gold mines of California; its climate, soil, productions, animals, &c., with sketches of Indian, Mexican and Californian character: to which is added, a guide of the route from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. (White's press, 1851), by Geo. Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria ; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. (Belford, Clarke & company, 1885), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
The California and Oregon trail, 1849-1860. (1921), by Amos William Hartman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report of investigation on location, cost of acquisition and development of Overland Emigrant Trail. (State Park Commission, 1949), by California. Division of Beaches and Parks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Butterfield overland mail (Huntington Library, 1960), by W. L. Ormsby, Josephine M. Bynum, Lyle Henry Wright, and Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1865), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
What I saw in California : being the journal of a tour by the emigrant route and south pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the continent of North America, the great desert basin, and through California in the years 1846-1847 (D. Appleton ;, 1849), by Edwin Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
Route across the Rocky Mountains : with a description of Oregon and California, their geographical features, their resources, soil, climate, productions, &c., &c. (Ye Galleon Press, 1982), by Overton Johnson and William H. Winter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A day with the cow column in 1843 (Oregon Historical Society, 1900), by Jesse A. Applegate (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of Medorem Crawford. An account of his trip across the plains with the Oregon pioneers of 1842. (Star Job Office, 1897), by Medorem Crawford and Star Job Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Rousseau diary : across the desert to California, from Salt Lake City to San Bernardino in 1864 (San Bernardino County Museum Association, 1958), by James A. Rousseau and George William Beattie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Applegate trail. ([Portland, Or.], 1947), by Walter E. Meacham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The old Oregon trail, the road which saved an empire. (The Old Oregon trail association, 1923), by Walter E. Meacham (page images at HathiTrust)
Barlow road, 1846. ([publisher not identified], 1947), by Walter E. Meacham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The trail to Oregon. (Binfords & Mort, 1954), by Frederica B. Coons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky mountains, under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M., containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, productions of the country, and the numbers, manners, and customs of the natives. (Andrus, Woodruff, & Gauntlett, 1844), by Samuel Parker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
A long trip in a prairie schooner ([J. Barnett], 1928), by Joel Barnett (page images at HathiTrust)
Crossing the plains and early days in California : memories of girlhood days in California's golden age (Priv. print. for the author, 1928), by Mary E. Ackley (page images at HathiTrust)
Landmarks on the Oregon Trail (Pub. by Peter Decker for The Westerners, 1953), by Paul Clifton Henderson, Westerners. New York Posse, and Aldus Printers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Death Valley heroine : and source accounts of the 1849 travelers (Inland Print. & Engraving Co., 1954), by L. Burr Belden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The valley whose name is Death (San Pasqual Press, 1940), by E. I. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Oregon trail and some of its blazers (Neale, 1930), by Maude Applegate Rucker and Jesse Applegate Applegate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Overland in 1846; diaries and letters of the California-Oregon Trail. (Talisman Press, 1963), by Dale L. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The emigrants' guide to California. (Da Capo Press, 1972), by Joseph E. Ware and John Walton Caughey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
California emigrant letters (Bookman Associates, 1952), by Walker Demarquis Wyman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Butterfield overland mail (The Huntington Library, 1962), by Waterman Lilly Ormsby, Josephine M Bynum, Lyle Henry Wright, and Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Journal of the sufferings and hardships of Capt. Parker H. French's overland expedition to California, which left New York city May 13th, 1850, and arrived at San Francisco Dec. 14 (Cadmus Book Shop, 1916), by William Miles (page images at HathiTrust)
Mormon way-bill to the gold mines ... (Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1968), by Joseph Cain and Arieh C Brower (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Death Valley and Manly (Death Valley '49ers, 1962), by Ardis Manly Walker and Death Valley '49ers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Magic river Deschutes (O.M. Pringle?, 1911), by O. M. Pringle (page images at HathiTrust)
On a donkey's hurricane deck; a tempestuous 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 (I.H. Blanchard Co., 1912), by R. Pitcher Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
A tramp across the continent (Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, 1893), by Charles Fletcher Lummis (page images at HathiTrust)
Tour of the St. Elmo's : from the Nutmeg state to the Golden Gate, 1883 (St. Elmo Commandery, No. 9], 1883), by E. B. Everitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Biography and early life sketch of the late Abram Sortore : including his trip to California and back. ([s.n.], 1909), by Jennie Thomas Pritchett and Abram Sortore (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of a trip to California, by the overland route across the plains in 1850-51. (Tobey & co., printers, 1852), by E. S. Ingalls (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Donner Party. A tragedy of the Sierra. (A.L. Bancroft & Company, Printers, 1880), by C. F. McGlashan and A.L. Bancroft & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
An overland trip to California in the year 1860. (1901), by Ellery Bicknell Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
Palmer's Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846. (A.H. Clark, 1906), by Joel Palmer and Henry Harmon Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)
[Overland diaries of the eighteen fifties. (Des Moines, Iowa, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
Across the plains in 1850. Journal and letters of Jerome Dutton, written during an overland journey from Scott County, Iowa, to Sacramento County, California in the year named. ([Des Moines, 1910), by Jerome Dutton (page images at HathiTrust)
Astoria : or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (G. P. Putnam, 1868), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Allen and Rachel; an overland honeymoon in 1853 (The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1938), by Walter H. McIntosh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Memoirs of Lemuel Clarke McKeeby. (California Historical Society., 1924), by Lemuel Clarke McKeeby (page images at HathiTrust)
Route of the Manly party of 1849-50 in leaving Death Valley for the coast (Pacific Coast Publishing Company, 1931), by John E. Wolff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Memoir of Shepard (Lane & Tippett, for the Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 200 Mulberry-Street., Joseph Longking, printer, 1848), by Zachariah Atwell Mudge, Thomas W. Streeter, Joseph Longking, Daniel P. Kidder, East Hartford Methodist Sabbath School Library, and Methodist Episcopal Church. Sunday School Union (page images at HathiTrust)
Three thousand miles in a railway car (Ringwalt & Brown, steam-power book and job press, nos. 111 and 113 South Fourth Street, 1867), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of the Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, and other trails. (Binsfords & Mort, 1955), by Jacob Ray Gregg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Route across the Rocky Mountains, : with a description of Oregon and California: their geographical features, their resources, soil, climate, productions, & c., & c. (John B. Semans, printer, 1846), by Overton Johnson and William H. Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels from St. Josephs to Oregon (Gazetteer and Intelligencer Prints, 1850), by Riley Root (page images at HathiTrust)
Central route to the Pacific : from the valley of the Mississippi to California ... (Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. ;, 1854), by Gwinn Harris Heap, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, and Grambo & Co Lippincott (page images at HathiTrust)
Adventures in California (Published at the Empire Steam Printing House, 1857), by Jane Barron (page images at HathiTrust)
The experiences of a Forty-niner during a thirty-four years' residence in California and Australia (H. A. Carson, 1924), by Charles D. Ferguson and Frederick T. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
Adventures of Captain Bonneville (United States Book Co., 1843), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean to ocean. Sandford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872 (The Radisson Society of Canada, 1925), by George Monro Grant and William Lawson Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains. .. (J. C. Derby & co.;, 1846), by Samuel Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
Argonauts of '49 : history and adventures of the emigrant companies from Massachusetts 1849-1850 (Harvard University Press, 1923), by Octavius T. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-19O6; an account of the author's trip across the plains, from the Missouri river to Puget sound, at the age of twenty-two, with an ox and cow team in 1852, and of his return with an ox team in the year 1906, at the age of seventy-six. (The author, 1906), by Ezra Meeker (page images at HathiTrust)
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, overland. A series of letters by Demas Barnes, describing a trip from New York to San Francisco, thence home, by Acapulco, and the isthmus of Panama. (D. Van Nostrand, 1866), by Demas Barnes and David Van Nostrand (page images at HathiTrust)
The ox team, or, The old Oregon Trail, 1852-1906 : an account of the author's trip across the plains, from the Missouri River to Puget Sound, at the age of twenty-two, with an ox and cow team in 1852, and of his return with an ox team in the year 1906, at the age of seventy-six ... a narrative of events and descriptive of present and past conditions (E. Meeker, 1906), by Ezra Meeker (page images at HathiTrust)
The ox team, or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906 : an account of the author's trip across the plains, from the Missouri River to Puget Sound, at the age of twenty-two, with an ox and cow team in 1852, and of his return with an ox team in the year 1906, at the age of seventy-six. (E. Meeker, 1907), by Ezra Meeker (page images at HathiTrust)
The Ashley-Smith explorations and the discovery of a central route to the Pacific, 1822-1829 (A.H. Clark Co., 1918), by Harrison Clifford Dale, Harrison G. Rogers, Jedediah Strong Smith, William Henry Ashley, and Harrison G. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
First three wagon trains : to California, 1841, to Oregon, 1842, to Washington, 1853 (Binfords & Mort, 1950), by James Longmire, Hubert Howe Bancroft, and John Bidwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The gold seekers of '49 : a personal narrative of the overland trail and adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854, by Kimball Webster, contrib. by George Waldo Browne, illust. by Frank Holland (Gutenberg ebook)
Une année au désert : Scènes et récits du Far-West américain (in French), by Auguste Nicaise (Gutenberg ebook)
The West from a car window, by Richard Harding Davis, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg ebook)
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, by Richard Francis Burton (Gutenberg ebook)
Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865, by Sarah Raymond Herndon (Gutenberg ebook)
Journal of Travels From St. Josephs to Oregon: With Observations of That Country, Together With Some Description of California, Its Agricultural Interests, and a Full Description of Its Gold Mines., by Riley Root, contrib. by Henry Harmon Spalding (Gutenberg ebook)
Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska, by Merrill J. Mattes (Gutenberg ebook)
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, by John Woodhouse Audubon, ed. by Frank Heywood Hodder, contrib. by Maria R. Audubon (Gutenberg ebook)
Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858, by William C. Lobenstine, ed. by Belle W. Lobenstine (Gutenberg ebook)
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., by Ezra Meeker (Gutenberg ebook)
Recollections of a Pioneer, by J. W. Gibson (Gutenberg ebook)
The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys, by H. J. Crumpton and Washington Bryan Crumpton (Gutenberg ebook)
Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast, by James Fowler Rusling (Gutenberg ebook)
In to the Yukon, by William Seymour Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
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, by R. Pitcher Woodward (Gutenberg ebook)
A Trip to California in 1853: Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer, by Washington Bailey (Gutenberg ebook)
Journal of a Trip to California: Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the Summer of 1850, by Charles W. Smith, ed. by R. W. G. Vail (Gutenberg ebook)
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51, contrib. by E. S. Ingalls (Gutenberg ebook)
Across the Plains to California in 1852: Journal of Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell, by Lodisa Frizell, ed. by Victor Hugo Paltsits (Gutenberg ebook)
In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852, by Gilbert L. Cole, ed. by A. S. Hardy (Gutenberg ebook)
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail, by Ezra Meeker and Howard R. Driggs, illust. by F. N. Wilson (Gutenberg ebook)
Crossing the Plains, Days of '57: A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method, by Wm. Audley Maxwell (Gutenberg ebook)
The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions, by Randolph B. Marcy (Gutenberg ebook)
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, by Edwin Bryant (Gutenberg ebook)
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, by William Lewis Manly (Gutenberg ebook)

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