Donner Party
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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)- Diary of Patrick Breen, by Patrick Breen, ed. by Frederick John Teggart (HTML at books-about-california.com)
- The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate, by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
- History of the Donner Party, A Tragedy of the Sierra, by C. F. McGlashan
- California, In-Doors and Out, by Eliza W. Farnham (HTML at LOC)
- Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California (Salt Lake City: Western Printing Co., 1930), by Charles Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
- California '46 to '88, by Jacob Wright Harlan (HTML at LOC)
- Across the Plains in the Donner Party: A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trip to California (as published in The Century Magazine, 1891), by Virginia Reed Murphy (illustrated HTML with geomapping at Celebration of Women Writers)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Overland journeys to the Pacific- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
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