Primary Sources: American West

"Unfortunate Emigrants": Narratives of the Donner Party by Kristin Johnson

The adventures of the woman homesteader: the life and letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart by Susanne George Bloomfield

Bachelor Bess the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 by Philip L. Gerber (Editor); Paul Corey (Foreword by); Wayne Franklin (Afterword by)

Covered wagon women : diaries & letters from the western trails, 1840-1890 by Kenneth L. Holmes (Compiled by, Editor); David C. Duniway (Editor); Ruth Barnes Moynihan (Introduction by)

Diary of Patrick Breen : One of the Donner Party by Frederick J. Teggart (editor)

Emily, the Diary of a Hard-worked Woman by Emily French; Janet Lecompte (Editor)

Ho for California. Personal reminiscences of William Rowe, Sr. of an overland trip from Rochester, Wisconsin to California in 1853 in company with "Lucky Baldwin". One of three typewritten copies of the narrative as originally published. by Sandra L. Myres (Editor)

Letters by lamplight a woman's view of everyday life in South Texas, 1873-1883 by Lois E. Myers

Letters from the Nevada frontier : correspondence of Tasker L. Oddie, 1898-1902 by Tasker L. Oddie; William A. Douglass; Robert A. Nylen

My father, Daniel Boone : the Draper interviews with Nathan Boone by Neal O. Hammon (Editor); Nelson L. Dawson (Introduction by)

The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman; Elmer N. Feltskog

An overland journey, from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859 by Horace Greeley

Pioneer women : voices from the Kansas frontier by Joanna Stratton; Arthur M. Schlesinger (Introduction by)