12. The Frontier and the West (to 1877)
Adams, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963. NRG, RGC: PS 3501 .D2152 L6 1964
Alexander, Eveline Martin. Cavalry Wife: The Diary of Eveline M. Alexander, 1866-1867: Being a Record of Her Journey from New York to Fort Smith to Join Her Cavalry-Officer Husband, Andrew J. Alexander, and Her Experiences with Him on Active Duty among the Indian Nations and in Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Edited by Sandra L. Myers. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1977. NRG, RVS: E 83.866 .A43 1977
Barclay, Donald A., and others. eds. Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994. (Excerpts from 33 accounts by Spanish, French, English, and American explorers who came into the West before Lewis and Clark.) CYP, RVS: F 592 .I68 1994.
Bloch, Louis M., ed. Overland to California in 1859: A Guide for Wagon Train Travelers. Cleveland, Ohio: Bloch, 1990. (Composite of quotations from several guides of the 1850s, mostly from Randolph B. Marcy’s The Prairie Traveler: Captain Marcy’s Handbook for Overland Expeditions [1859].) NRG: F 593 .B67 1990
Brewerton, George Douglas. Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in ’48. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. RGC: F 786 .B84 1993
Carter, Robert Goldthwaite. On the Border with Mackenzie: or Winning West Texas from the Comanches. Mattituck, N.Y.: J. M. Carroll, 1989. (“One of the best sources on the Federal cavalry campaigns against the Indians in the 1870s.” Author, outspoken and very prejudiced, served with Mackenzie.) EVC: F 391 .C337 1989
Chapman, Helen. News from Brownsville: Helen Chapman’s Letters from the Texas Frontier, 1848-1852. Edited by Caleb Coker. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1992. (Correspondence of New Englander wife of quartermaster at Fort Brown. Comments on women’s roles on the frontier, childcare, diet, slavery, temperance, relationships between Texans and Mexicans.) PIN: F 394 .B88 C47 1992
Clarke, A. B. Travels in Mexico and California: Comprising a Journal of a Tour from Brazos Santiago, through Central Mexico, by Way of Monterey, Chihuahua, the Country of the Apaches, and the River Gila, to the Mining Districts of California. Edited by Anne M. Perry. (Essays on the American West, number 10.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1988. (Author left New York in January 1949 by ship, to take southern route to the Calfornia gold fields. Landed near mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas. Crossed into Mexico near Mier, then traveled across northern Mexico, passing through Saltillo and Monterrey, to the Gila River (in present Arizona), then west to Los Angeles and north to San Francisco, arriving there in July.) PIN: F 786 .C57 1988.
Cody, William F. The Life of Buffalo Bill. (Western Classics.) London: Senate, 1994. (Facsimile of book originally published in the 1878 or ’79. Focus is on Cody’s years on the Great Plains.) PIN: F 594 B625 1994
Cooley, John R., ed. The Great Unknown: The Journals of the Historic First Expedition Down the Colorado River. Flagstaff, Ariz.: Northland Pub., 1988. (John Wesley Powell’s expedition of 1867.) NRG, RGC, RVS: F 788 .G774 1988
Custer, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains. or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas. University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. (Reprint of 1893 edition. Describes overland trip of author, husband, and federal troops southwestward from Washington, D.C. Louisiana and Texas at end of Civil War, sojourn in Austin until end of January, 1866, then travel back to Washington, then later to Colorado and Kansas. Recounts Indian fighting in area between Arkansas and Platte rivers in 1867. Provides detailed descriptions of army officer’s home life on frontier during major period of Indian unrest.) CYP: F 594 .C986 1994
Custer, George Armstrong. My Life on the Plains. New York: Leisure Books, 1982. (First published in the Galaxy magazine, 1872-1874.) NRG, RGC: F 594 .C97
Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle, ed. Women’s Indian Captivity Narratives. New York: Penguin Group, 1998. (Ten complete narratives spanning period 1682-1892. From the back cover: “The narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by women’s experiences.Many such captivity narratives were fact based but often transformed by authors or editors into spellbinding adventure stories, sentimental tales, spiritual autobiographies, or anti-Indian propaganda.”) NRG: E 85 .W85 1998
Dippie, Brian W., comp. Custer’s Last Stand. New York: Viking, 1977. (A portfolio of materials, mostly documents.) NRG, RGC: E 83.876 .C983 C87
Exley, Jo Ella Powell, ed. Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine: Voices of Frontier Women. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985. NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: F 381 .T53 1985
Fischer, Christine, ed. Let Them Speak for Themselves: Women in the American West, 1849-1900. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978. PIN: HQ 1410 .L39 1978
Farnham, Eliza Woodson Burhans. Life in Prairie Land. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. (Memoir of a pioneer Illinois woman.) RVS: F 545 .F23 1988
Fremont, John C. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. (Reprint of 1844 publication: A Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44.) RVS: F 592 .F874 1988
Froncek, Thomas, ed. Voices from the Wilderness: The Frontiersman’s Own Story. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1983. (Part I, “The Appalachians and Beyond, 1755-1825, includes writings by George Croghan, Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, David Crockett, and others. Part II, “The Missouri and Beyond, 1808-1870, includes writings by John Colter, Hames Ohio Pattie, James P. Beckwourth, Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, James Bridger, Grizzly Adams, William Cody, and others.) NRG, PIN: E 176 .F82 1983
Gibbon, John. Adventures on the Western Frontier. Edited by Alan and Maureen Gaff. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1994 (Documents by U.S. army artillery officer in 1860 (following the Oregon Trail across the Great Plains), and in the 1870s, exploring, dealing with Indians, etc. on the plains and in the Rocky Mountains. Visited new Yellowstone National Park. Helped rescue surviors after the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.) PIN: F 594 .G415 A3 1994
Gillett, James B. Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875-1881. Edited by M. M. Quaife. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976. (Events center on Central and Southwest Texas.) NRG, RGC, RVS: F 391 .G473 1976
Gillis, Julia. So Far from Home: An Army Bride on the Western Frontier, 1865-1869. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1993. PIN: F 852 .G49 1993
Glasgow, Edward James, and William Henry Glasgow. Brothers on the Santa Fe and Chihuahua Trails: Edward James Glasgow and William Henry Glasgow, 1846-1848. Edited by Mark L. Gardner. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1993. (The authors participated in the international trade with the northern Mexican provinces. They also played a role in events surrounding the conduct of the Mexican War in New Mexico and Chihuahua. The writings here deal with the Mexican War period.) PIN: F 786 .G57 1993
Goeth, Ottilie Fuchs. Memoirs of a Texas Pioneer Grandmother, 1805-1915. Burnet, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1982. NRG, RVS: F 392 .T47 G6313 1982
Gregg, Josiah. Commerce of the Prairies. 2 vols. (Keystone Americana Series.) Philadelphia, Penn.: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1962. (The 1844 edition unabridged. Author’s account of four trips made to New Mexico from the United States between 1831 and 1842. Subjects: the Santa Fe trade, Mexicans, Plains Indians, descriptions of the natural environment.) PIN: F 800 .G844 1962
Grierson, Alice Kirk. The Colonel’s Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson. Edited by Shirley A. Leckie. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. RGC: F 594 .G765 1989
Hafen, Leroy R., and Ann W. Hafen, eds. Journals of Forty-Niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. RVS: F 593 .J676 1998
Hardin, John Wesley. The Life of John Wesley Hardin: As Written by Himself. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. (A Texas outlaw in the post-Civil War era.) NRG: F 391 .H26 1961
Holden, William Curry. Rollie Burns, or, An Account of the Ranching Industry on the South Plains. (A Southwest Landmark.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986. (Originally published, 1932. Rewritten from manuscripts provided by Burns, who is the narrator of these reminiscences. Covers years 1861-1931. Early chapters deal with North Texas area.) RVS: F 391 .B93 H65 1986
Holmes, Kenneth L., ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. EVC: F 591 .C79 1995 V. 8
Holliday, J. S. The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. (This is a somewhat “doctored” primary source. It is based on the diary of William Swain but adds material from other diaries and letters.) NRG: F 865 .H69
Holden, Kenneth L., ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. EVC: F 591 .C79 1995 V. 8
Holthaus, Gary, ed. A Society to Match the Scenery: Personal Visions of the Future of the American West. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1991. RGC: F 595.3 .S63 1991
Hughes, John Taylor. Doniphan’s Expedition; Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney’s Overland Expedition to California; Doniphan’s Campaign Against the Navajos; his Unparalleled March upon Chihuahua and Durango; and the Operations of General Price at Santa Fe . . . . College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. (Originally published in 1847. Author was a member of the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteeers, commanded by Col. Alexander Doniphan. Although written in the form of a historical treatise, the work is based largely on Hughes’ notes, personal journal, personal experiences, and letters to his hometown newspaper.) RGC: E 405.2 .H943 1997
Hunter, John Marvin, ed. The Trail Drivers of Texas: Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys and their Experiences on the Range and on the Trail during the Days that Tried Men’s Souls-True Narratives Related by Real Cowpunchers and Men who Fathered the Cattle Industry in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. NRG, RGC, RVS: F 596 .T72 1985
Hutton, Paul Andrew, ed. The Custer Reader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. (A hybrid source. Contains both primary and secondary source material. Primary source documents relevant to the West begin on pp. 159, 180, 201, 257, 336, and 363.) NRG, PIN: R 467.1 .C99 C85 1992
Johnson, Rolf. Happy as a Big Sunflower: Adventures in the West, 1876-1880. Edited by Richard E. Jensen. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. (About Phelps County, Nebraska.) PIN: F 672 .P5 J64 2000
Jones, Robert F. Annals of Astoria: The Headquarters Log of the Pacific Fur Company on the Columbia River, 1811-1813. New York: Fordham Press, 1999. (The journal of Duncan McDougall, supervising partner of the Pacific Fur Company at Astoria. Records the daily operations at the post and in the Oregon country during period covered.) NRG: HD 9944 .U48 P333 1999
Kelly, Luther S. Yellowstone Kelly: The Memoirs of Luther S. Kelly. Edited by M. M. Quaife. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1973. (Years covered, 1865-1878. Kelly tells of his explorations on the Upper Missouri and its tributaries, including the Yellowstone and the new park established there.) RVS: F 594 .K35 1973
Lane, Lydia Spencer. I Married a Soldier, or, Old Days in the Old Army. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. (Military and pioneer life on the frontier [Texas and New Mexico] after the Civil War.) NRG, RGC: F 786 .L3 1987
Lanning, Jim, and Judy Lanning, eds. Texas Cowboys: Memories of the Early Days. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984. (Narratives collected by the Federal Writers’ Project of the WPA in the 1930s.) NRG, RGC, RVS: F 391 .T3813 1984
Lee, Nelson. Three Years among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. (Gary Clayton Anderson, in the foreword, calls this account “a primary source where the author is not honest with the reader.” Read the foreword before using. Value lies mainly in its description of the Texas Rangers and their attitudes, especially their racial prejudice. Covers period, 1840s-1850s. Originally published, 1859.) CYP: E 99 .C85 L44 1991
Lewis, Meriwether. History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Vols. 1-3. Edited by Elliott Coues. New York: Dover, 1965? RGC: F 592.4 .C68 1965.
Lewis, Meriwether. The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Edited by Frank Bergon. New York: Penguin Books, 1989. (This is a condensation of the original journals.) EVC, PIN, RVS: F 592.4 1989 (Another edition, with the same title but a different editor, publisher, and publication date, is at NRG and RGC.)
Lewis, Meriwether. The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Gary E. Moulton, ed. 7 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,1983-1988. (The complete journals. ACC has volumes 2-7.) RVS: F 592.4 1983
Libo, Kenneth, ed. We Lived There, Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures: Pioneer Jews and the Westward Movement of America, 1630-1930. New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984. RVS: F 596.3 .J5 L53 1984
Love, Nat. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as “Deadwood Dick.” Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. (The first fifteen chapters are relevant to this course. Author was a former slave from Tennessee. Only black cowboy to write of his experiences driving cattle up the Chisholm Trail out of Texas. Also recounts adventures in Arizona and Dakota territories, etc.) NRG: F 594 .L89 1995
Mackenzie, Ranald. Ranald Mackenzie’s Official Correspondence Relating to Texas,1871-1873. Edited by Ernest Wallace. Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1967. (Author popular and successful U.S army cavalry officer who fought Indians in western Texas from Mexico north to the Panhandle in the 1870s.) RVS: F 391 .M167 A4 1967
Mackenzie, Ranald. Ranald Mackenzie’s Official Correspondence Relating to Texas,1873-1879. Edited by Ernest Wallace. Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1968. (Bound with Ranald Mackenzie’s Official Correspondence Relating to Texas,1871-1873. This book begins after p. 202 of the earlier volume. (Author popular and successful U.S army cavalry officer who fought Indians in western Texas from Mexico north to the Panhandle in the 1870s.) RVS: F 391 .M167 A4 1967
McConnell, H. H. Five Years a Cavalryman, or, Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier, 1866-1871. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. CYP: F 391 .M129 1996
McIntire, Jim. Early Days in Texas: A Trip to Hell and Heaven. Edited by Robert K. DeArment. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. (Reprint; originally published, 1902. Author lived 1846-to about 1916. Came to Texas from Ohio in 1873. Was a cowboy, buffalo hunter, Texas Ranger, saloonkeeper, gambler, and outlaw. Spent some time in New Mexico in the 180s. Dates often incorrect, as are some details. Read editor’s footnotes for corrections.) RVS: F 391 .M93 1992
Millner, Clyde A., ed. Major Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and Essays. Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1989. RVS: F 591 .M217 1989
Morgan, Dale, ed. Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail. 2 vols. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. (Includes material on the Donner party.) PIN, RVS: F 592 .094 1993
Myers, Lois E. Letters by Lamplight: Life in South Texas, 1873-1883. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 1991. RGC: F 391 .M94 1991
Moynihan, Ruth B., and others, eds. So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier. (Women in the West.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. NRG, RGC, RVS: F 596 .S68 1990
Nicollet, Joseph N. Joseph N. Nicollet on the Plains and Prairies: The Expeditions of 1838-39, with Journals, Letters, and Notes on the Dakota Indians. Translated from the French and edited by Edmund C. Bray and Martha Coleman Bray. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1976. NRG: F 597 .N63
Niederman, Sharon, ed. A Quilt of Words: Women’s Diaries, Letters & Original Accounts of Life in the Southwest, 1850-1950. Boulder, Col.: Johnson Books, 1988. NRG, RGC, RVS: HQ 1438 .Al65 N53 1988.
Palmer, Joel. Journal of Travels: Over the Oregon Trail in 1845. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1993. RGC: F 597 .P3 1993
Parke, Charles Ross. Dreams to Dust: A Diary of the California Gold Rush, 1849-1850. Edited by James E. Davis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. PIN: F 593 .P28 1989
Parker, W. B. Notes Taken during the Expedition Commanded by Capt. R. B. Marcy, U.S.A., through Unexplored Texas, in the Summer and Fall of 1854. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1990. (Reprint of the 1856 edition.) RVS: F 391 .P24 1990.
Pike, James. The Scout and Ranger: Being the Personal Adventures of Corporal Pike of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, as a Texas Ranger, in the Indian Wars. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. (Written in 1865. Northern-born author was a Texas Ranger, 1959-’61, then returned north when Texas seceded. Joined Ohio cavalry unit to serve Union Army as scout and spy within Confederate lines. Account generally very accurate.) NRG: F 391 P63 1972
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery. The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike. Edited by Elliott Coues. 2 vols. New York: Dover Publications, 1987. (Pike’s account of two military expeditions he commanded. Vol. 1 covers the expedition in 1805-1806 to the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Minnesota. Vol. 2 covers the second, in 1806-1807, to explore the upper reaches of the Arkansas and Red rivers. Recounts his capture by Spanish troops and later escorted trip through Texas and release into Louisiana.) RVS: F 592 .P6361987
Pickerell, Annie Doom. Pioneer Women in Texas. Austin, Tex.: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1970. (Material compiled from recollections and memoirs of women who came to Texas prior to statehood. Good material on social life and pioneer folkways.) RGC: F 385 .P5
Powell, John Wesley. The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons. New York: Dover, 1961. RGC: F 788 .P88 1961
Reid, Bernard J. Overland to California with the Pioneer Line: The Gold Rush Diary of Bernard J. Reid. Edited by Mary McDougall Gordon. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1983. RGC: F 593 .R45 1983
[Research Publications.] Westward Expansion. (Research Publications’ American Journey.) Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications: Primary Source Media, 1994. (A computer database on CD-ROM. A fully indexed and searachable collection of primary sources.) RVS: On index tables. (See a reference librarian or other LRC personnel for assistance.)
Richmond, Robert W. and Robert W. Mardock, eds. A Nation Moving West.: Readings in the History of the American Frontier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966. (Document excerpts center chiefly on people and things directly concerned with the settlement of the American West-the movement itself and the life that it produced. Begins with the trans-Appalachian West of 1775 and ends with the Far West of the post-Civil War era.) RGC: F 591 .R5
Ridge, Martin, and Ray Allen Billington, eds. America’s Frontier Story: A Documentary History of Western Expansion. (The American Problem Studies.) Warrington, N.Y.:R. E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1980. PIN: E 178.6 .R65 1980
Russell, Marian. Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail. as Dictated to Mrs. Hal Russell. Edited by Garnet M. Brayer. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981. (Early part of book deals with life in St. Louis and the upper Mississipp River beginning in 1845. Trip down the Santa Fe Trail began in 1852. Memoirs continue to 1936.) RGC: F 786 .R96 1981
Schlissel, Lillian, ed. Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey. (Studies in the Life of Women.) New York: Schocken Books, 1982. (Four diaries describing overland journeys to the Pacific in the nineteenth century.) EVC, PIN, NRG, RGC, RVS: F 593 .W65 1982
Seton, Alfred. Astorian Adventure: The Journal of Alfred Seton, 1811-1815. New York: Fordham University Press, 1993. (Author, a clerk of John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company. Journal tells of Seton’s experiences en route by sea to the Oregon country and the unsuccessful effort there to establish a fur trading post near the mouth of the Columbia River. Has much to say about area Native Americans, mostl of it very negative.) NRG: F 884 .A8 S48 1003
Shirley, Dame (Louise A. K. S. Clappe). The Shirley Letters. Salt Lake City, Utah: Perigrine Smith Books, 1983. (Twenty-three letters written in 1851 and 1852 by the author from the California gold fields). PIN: F 865 .C58 1983
Smith, Jedediah Strong. The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith: His Personal Account of the Journey to California, 1826-1827. Edited by George R. Brooks. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. RGC: F 800 .S55 1989
Sowell, A. J. Rangers and Pioneers of Texas: with a Concise Account of the Early Settlements, Hardships, Massacres, Battles, and Wars, by which Texas Was Rescued from the Rule of the Savage and Consecrated to the Empire of Civilization. Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 1991. (First published in 1884. Author was a Texas Ranger. Much detail on the Wichita Indian campaign of 1870, in which Sowell participated. Many quotations [some extensive] from other primary sources.) NRG: F 391 .S745 1991
Stewart, Elinore Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. PIN: F 761 .S8 1989
Stiles, T. J., comp. In Their Own Words: Warriors and Pioneers. Berkley Publishing Group, 1996. (Excerpts from writings by Native Americans Geronimo, Two Moons, Wooden Leg, Chief Joseph,; Generals George A. Custer, William T. Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan; gunmen Pat Garrett, John Wesley Hardin, Frank Canton, Emmet Dalton, settlers and travelers Theodore Roosevelt, Francis Parkman, Fanny Kelly; scouts Buffalo Bill Cody, Tom Hardy, etc.) PIN: F 592 .W29 1996
Stillman, J. D. B. Wanderings in the Southwest in 1855. (Western Frontiersmen Series.) Spokane, Wash.: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1990. (Author, a New York physician, visited Texas for six months in 1855, landing at Indianola. Spent time in Port Lavaca, Goliad, Helena, San Antonio, and then west to Fort Clark and Camp Lancaster, traveling as far as the Pecos River.) RVS: F 391 .S86 1990
Stratton, Joanna L., comp. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. NRG, RGC, RVS: HQ 1438 .K2 S77. (Copies of the 1982 edition [same call number] are at PIN and RVS.)
Twain, Mark. Roughing It. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1953. (Twain’s experiences as a jounalist in Nevada and California between 1861 and 1866.) RVS: PS 1318 .A1 1953
Werner, Emmy E. Pioneer Children on the Journey West. Boulder, Colo.: The Westview Press, 1995. (A hybrid source. Excerpts from diaries, journals, letters, and reminiscences of approximately 120 children and youth, written between 1841 and 1865. Youngest was four at the time of the crossing. Most written by youth in their early and middle teens. Interspersed with the excerpts is extensive secondary source commentary by the author. Bibliography has many titles of published primary sources from which the excerpts were taken.) RVS: F 596 .W467 1995
White, William Henry. Custer, Cavalry & Crows, Being the Thrilling Account of the Western Adventures of William White. Ft. Collins, Colo.: Old Army Press, 1975. NRG, RGC: E 83.866 .W53 1975
Whitehead, Fred, and Verle Muhrer, eds. Freethought on the American Frontier. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1992. RGC: BL 2780 .F74 1992
Wilbarger, J. W. Indian Depredations in Texas: Reliable Accounts of Battles, Wars, Adventures, Forays, Murders, Massacres, etc., Together with Biographical Sketches of Many of the Most Noted Indian Fighters and Frontiersmen of Texas. Austin, Texas: State House Press, 1985. (Reprint of 1889 edition. Technically a secondary source, but almost all material in the book is by persons who knew from direct knowledge whereof they wrote. Author/compiler was a Texas pioneer. Time covered: 1821-1889.) PIN, RVS: E 78 .T4 W62 1985
Windolph, Charles. I Fought with Custer: The Story of Sergeant Windolph, Last Survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn: with Explanatory Material and Contemporary Sidelights on the Custer Fight. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. NRG: E 83.876 .W5 1987
(See also: Early National Period, 1789-1828,Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and Sectionalism, 1829-1861 [especially for frontier Texas material]; Native Americans in United States History; Texas History before Annexation to the United States.)