by Washington Irving (1956)
Account of an expedition in Oct. and Nov. 1832 through a part of the unorganized Indian country now the state of Oklahoma.
Nancy Plain
Presents the diary of the wife of General George Armstrong Custer, focusing on their life on the Great Plains from 1873 to 1876, when Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were clearing the way for the Northern Pacific Railroad and battling Native Americans.
Johan Adrian Jacobsen
Translation of book published at Leipzig by Max Spohr in 1884. Account of expedition to western Canada and Alaska by Norwegian sea captain J. Adrian Jacobsen in 1881-83. Ethnographical observations.
Caroline C. Leighton
First person account of Western travel. Between 1865 and 1881 the author travelled extensively along the northwest coast describing localities, natural history, native customs and missionary activities. Her comments on the Chinese community in San Francisco are particularly interesting.
Joyce Badgley Hunsaker
Provides paintings, photographs, newspaper articles, and fictionalized diaries of real people who traveled the Oregon Trail throughout the nineteenth century.