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Some of those that traveled across the United States before the Transcontinental Railroad was completed kept journals and diaries of their journeys. This page provides some suggestions on where to find these records. | |||
=== Trail Bibliographies === | === Trail Bibliographies === | ||
* | *Bashore, Melvin L. and Linda L. Haslem. ''Mormon Pioneer Companies Crossing the Plains (1847-1868) Narratives: guide to sources in Utah libraries and archives''. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Historical Department, 1990. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/594278 FHL 289.3016 B291m 1990; film 1592752 item 6]). | ||
* | *Etter, Patricia A. ''To California on the Southern Route,1849: a history and annotated bibliography''. Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clarke, 1998. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/820511 FHL 979.4 H2et]) | ||
* | *Heckman, Martin L. ''Overland on the California Trail, 1846-1859: a bibliography of manuscript & printed travel narratives''. Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clarke, 1984. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/48267 FHL 979. h23h]) | ||
* Kurutz, Gary F. | * Kurutz, Gary F. ''The California Gold Rush. A Descriptive Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets Covering the Years 1848-1853''. San Francisco: Gelber-Lilienthal, 197. (not at FHL, find local holdings via [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37191018 WorldCat]) | ||
* | *Lester, Robert E., ed. ''The American West: Overland journeys,1841-1880: research collections on the American West''. Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1998. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/986318 FHL 973 W2Les]) | ||
* | *Mattes, Merrill J. ''Platte River Toad Narratives: a descriptive bibliography of travel over the great central overland route to Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Montana, and other western states and territories, 1812-1866''. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/662244 FHL 978 E63m]) | ||
* | *Mintz, Lannon W. ''The Trail: a bibliography on the Overland Trail to California, Oregon, Salt Lake City, and Montana during the years, 1841-1864''. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/651513 FHL 973 E63m]) | ||
* | *O'Bryan, Frank. ''Overland Chronicle: emigrant diaries in Western Nevada Libraries''. Reno: Nevada Historical Society, 1979. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/360501 FHL 979. 3 J530]) | ||
* | *Townley, John M. ''The Trail West: a bibliography index to Western American Trails, 1841-1869''. Reno, Nevada: Jamson Street Press, 1988. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/431635 FHL 973 W22t]) | ||
* Wagner, Henry R. and Charles L. Camp.'' The Plains and the Rockies: a Critical Bibliography of Exploration,Adventure and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865.'' | * Wagner, Henry R. and Charles L. Camp.'' The Plains and the Rockies: a Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865.'' San Francisco: John Howell, 1982. (not at FHL, find local holdings via [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/945084820 WorldCat]) | ||
* | *White, Kris and Mary Catherine Cuthill, eds. ''Overland Passages: a guide to Overland Documents in the Oregon Historical Society''. Portland: Oregon HIstorical Society, 1993. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/628183 FHL 973 W20]) | ||
=== Selected Trail Narratives === | === Selected Trail Narratives === | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | ==== '''Oregon Trail''' ==== | ||
*Akin, James, Jr. ''The Oregon trail diary of James Akin, Jr. in 1852: the unabridged diary with introduction and contemporary comments''. N.p.: Webb Research Group, 1989. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/544178 FHL 921.73 Ak52a]) | |||
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | *Belshaw, Maria Parsons. ''Crossing the Plains to Oregon in 1853''. Fairfield, Washington: Ye Gallon Press, 2000. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/614357 FHL 979 H 2bj]) | ||
*[ | * Bowers, Fidelia March. ''[http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/30246 An account of the Wagon Train Mastered by Solomon Tetherow]''. N.p.: n.d. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/66441 FHL 921.73 A1 no. 159]) | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | *Cummins, Sarah J. ''[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1048319 Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sarah J. Cummins, Touchet, Washington]''. La Grande, Ore.: La Grande Priting Co., 1914. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1048319 FHL digital images]) | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | *Davis, Charles George. ''The Oskaloosa Company : last wagon train to Skinner's in 1847, a history of the southern road to Oregon: untold story of the Scott-Applegate Trail overland journey guided by the 1847 pilot of record, life and death in a frontier settlement, maps of the southern road to Oregon''. Portland, Oregon: Frontier Publishing, 1996. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1014380 FHL 979.5 H2do]) | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | *Doyle, Susan Badger and Fred W. Dykes, eds. ''The 1854 Oregon Trail Diary of Winfield Scott Ebey''. Independence, Missouri: Oregon-California Trails, Association, 1997. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/686195 FHL 921.73 Eb27d]) | ||
*[ | *Hanna, Esther Belle. ''[http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/260757 Journal of Esther Belle Hanna]''. N.p.: n.d. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/140677 FHL 921.73 A1 no. 507]) | ||
*[ | *Lenox, Edward Henry. Robert Whitaker, ed. ''[http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/106229 Overland to Oregon: in the tracks of Lewis and Clarke, history of the first emigration to Oregon in 1843].'' Oakland, California: E. H. Lenox, 1902. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/690954 FHL 979.5 W2L]) | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | *McBride, John Rogers. ''Overland to Oregon: Yamhill County, 1846.'' Lafayette, Oregon: Yamhill County Genealogical Society, 1996. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/652068 FHL 2055388 item 10]) | ||
*[ | *Meeker, Ezra. ''[http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/299362 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, with copious excerpts from his journal and other reliable sources of information; a narrative of events and descriptive of present and past conditions]''. New York: Era Meeker, 1907. (reprint [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/527298 FHL 979.7 H2m]) | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | *Miles, Majorie Ellis. ''The Kennedy Company.'' Boise, Idaho: Idaho Genealogical Society, 2001. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1009432 FHL 979.5 H2mkc]) | ||
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | *Packard, Patricia L. ed. ''Harvey H. Jones, 1864, Oregon Trail Journal.'' Boise, Idaho: Idaho Genealogical Society, 2001? ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1009430 FHL 979.5 H2p]) | ||
* | * Rumer, Thomas A. ''The Wagon Trains of '44: A Comparative View of the Individual Caravans in the Emigration of 1844 to Oregon.'' Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1990. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/380287 FHL 978 W2r]) | ||
* | *Rumer, Thomas A. ed. ''This Emigrating Company: the 1844 Oregon Trail Journal of Jacob Hammer.'' Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark, 1990. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/380282 FHL 973 W2ha]) | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | * Thomson, Origen. ''Crossing the Plains: narratives of the scenes, incidents and adventures attending the overland journey of the Decatur and Rush county emigrants to the "far-off" Oregon in 1852: printed from a diary of daily events''. Greensburg, Indiana: Orville Thomson Printer, 1896. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2492210 FHL 973 W2tor]) | ||
* [ | *White, Thomas. Edited by Oscar O. Winther and Gayle Thornbrough. ''[http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/245391 To Oregon in 1852. Letter of Dr Thomas White, La Grange County, Indiana emigrant].'' Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1964. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/296363 FHL 977.2 B4 v. 23 no 1-4]) | ||
* Wilbur, Sanford R, and Sally H. Wilbur. ''[http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/581397 The McCully Train. Iowa to Oregon, 1852].'' Gresham, Oregon: Symblos, 2000. ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/963793 FHL 978 H2wm]) | |||
''' California Trail''' | ==== '''California Trail''' ==== | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/pioneersof49hist00ball Ball, Nicholas. ''The Pioneers of '49. A History of the Excursion of the Society of California Pioneers of New England... Boston: Lee and Shepard publishers, 1891] | *[https://archive.org/details/pioneersof49hist00ball Ball, Nicholas. ''The Pioneers of '49. A History of the Excursion of the Society of California Pioneers of New England... Boston: Lee and Shepard publishers, 1891] | ||
*Bennett, James. 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. New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1932. | *Bennett, James. 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. New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1932. | ||
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=== Mormon Trail === | === Mormon Trail === | ||
'''Published''' | |||
==== '''Published''' ==== | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/651425?availability=Family%20History%20Library Bagley,Will,ed., Bullock, Thomas. ''The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: the 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals.'' Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clarke, 1997. FHL 289.373 H2b v. 1 ] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/651425?availability=Family%20History%20Library Bagley,Will,ed., Bullock, Thomas. ''The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: the 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals.'' Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clarke, 1997. FHL 289.373 H2b v. 1 ] | ||
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*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/768783?availability=Family%20History%20Library Turner, Lynne Slater, comp. ''Emigrating journals of the Willie and Martin handcart companies and the Hunt and Hodgett wagon trains.''S.l.: s.n., 1996 FHL 973 w29t] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/768783?availability=Family%20History%20Library Turner, Lynne Slater, comp. ''Emigrating journals of the Willie and Martin handcart companies and the Hunt and Hodgett wagon trains.''S.l.: s.n., 1996 FHL 973 w29t] | ||
'''Manuscript''' | ==== '''Manuscript''' ==== | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/177531?availability=Family%20History%20Library A Journal of the Emigration Company of Council Point, Pottawatamie County, Iowa in the summer of 1852. FHL 977.771 W2j; film 25789] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/177531?availability=Family%20History%20Library A Journal of the Emigration Company of Council Point, Pottawatamie County, Iowa in the summer of 1852. FHL 977.771 W2j; film 25789] | ||
*Archer, William. Journal of… Enroute from England to Utah, U.S.A., March 18, 1856 to September 5th, 1856. (transcript 5 leaves) FHL 1421859 item 17 | *Archer, William. Journal of… Enroute from England to Utah, U.S.A., March 18, 1856 to September 5th, 1856. (transcript 5 leaves) FHL 1421859 item 17 | ||
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*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1111993?availability=Family%20History%20Library Palmer, Rosemary Gudmundson. '' Children's Voices from the Trail: narratives of the Platte River Road.'' Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark, 2002. FHL 978 H2pr] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1111993?availability=Family%20History%20Library Palmer, Rosemary Gudmundson. '' Children's Voices from the Trail: narratives of the Platte River Road.'' Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark, 2002. FHL 978 H2pr] | ||
'''Utah''' | ==== '''Utah''' ==== | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/181278?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Utah Pioneer Biographies.'' 44 volumes. ( 1935-1964) FHL 979.2 D3u] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/181278?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Utah Pioneer Biographies.'' 44 volumes. ( 1935-1964) FHL 979.2 D3u] | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2504738?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Index to Utah pioneer biographies : volumes 1-44.''Salt Lake City, Utah : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Library, c2015 FHL Digital images] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2504738?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Index to Utah pioneer biographies : volumes 1-44.''Salt Lake City, Utah : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Library, c2015 FHL Digital images] | ||
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*[https://heritage.utah.gov/history/utah-state-history-digital-collections Utah State Historical Society. Digital Collections. Work Progress Administration. Biographical Sketches.] | *[https://heritage.utah.gov/history/utah-state-history-digital-collections Utah State Historical Society. Digital Collections. Work Progress Administration. Biographical Sketches.] | ||
'''Oregon''' | ==== '''Oregon''' ==== | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2018325 George W. Kennedy. ''The Pioneer campfire, in four parts : With the emigrants on the great plains. With the settlers in the log cabin homes. With the hunters and miners. With the preachers on the trails, at campmeetings and in the log cabins. Anecdotes, adventures and reminiscences.''Portland, Oregon : Clarke-Kundret Print. Co., 1914. FHL Digital images] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2018325 George W. Kennedy. ''The Pioneer campfire, in four parts : With the emigrants on the great plains. With the settlers in the log cabin homes. With the hunters and miners. With the preachers on the trails, at campmeetings and in the log cabins. Anecdotes, adventures and reminiscences.''Portland, Oregon : Clarke-Kundret Print. Co., 1914. FHL Digital images] | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/358514?availability=Family%20History%20Library Leslie L. Haskin. ''Pioneer stories of Linn County, Oregon : W.P.A. interviews.'' 5 volumes. Albany, Oregon : Early Pioneer Publications, 1984- FHL 979.535 D3h v.1-5] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/358514?availability=Family%20History%20Library Leslie L. Haskin. ''Pioneer stories of Linn County, Oregon : W.P.A. interviews.'' 5 volumes. Albany, Oregon : Early Pioneer Publications, 1984- FHL 979.535 D3h v.1-5] | ||
'''Washington''' | |||
==== '''Washington''' ==== | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2781585?availability=Mesa%20Arizona%20FamilySearch%20Library Washington Pioneer Project. ''Told by the pioneers : tales of frontier life as told by those who remember the days of the territory and early statehood of Washington.'' 3 volumes. Washington: Washington Pioneer Project, 1937-1938. FHL Digital Images] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2781585?availability=Mesa%20Arizona%20FamilySearch%20Library Washington Pioneer Project. ''Told by the pioneers : tales of frontier life as told by those who remember the days of the territory and early statehood of Washington.'' 3 volumes. Washington: Washington Pioneer Project, 1937-1938. FHL Digital Images] | ||
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=== Societies === | === Societies === | ||
* | *[http://www.dupinternational.org/ Daughters of the Utah Pioneers]. The DUP has biographies of some Utah pioneers. To search their index, visit their website, click on "Histories," then "Pioneer History Index." | ||
*[https://www.sup1847.com/ National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers] | *[https://www.sup1847.com/ National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers] | ||