Platte River Road Narratives: A Descriptive Bibliography of Travel Over the Great Central Overland Route to Oregon California Utah Colorado ... Western States and Territories 1812-1866

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This massive annotated bibliography of all known significant eyewitness accounts of nineteenth-century central overland travel fills a conspicuous gap in historical literature and will greatly accelerate research writing and collecting. Platte River Road Narratives includes not only all identifiable overland accounts but also a number of those identifiable in manuscript form only. Over 2 000 entries identify the author the form of the passage overland trip and give Mattes authoritative commentary and evaluation as well as identification of the repository of the source material.