Primary Sources: American West

The mountains we have crossed diaries and letters of the Oregon Mission, 1838 by Clifford Merrill Drury (Editor, Introduction by); Bonnie Sue Lewis (Introduction by)

Polk; the Diary of a President, 1845-1849 by James K. Polk

Frontier Doctor by Urling C. Coe

The correspondence and Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1831-6 by Nathaniel J. Wyeth

Reports and Letters, 1836-1838, of Herbert Beaver by Herbert Beaver

Mrs. Whitman's Letters 1843-1847 by Narcissa Prentiss Whitman