The Jews of New Jersey

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Benjamin H. Johnson

A richly researched, evocative account of the individuals and institutions involved in the settling of the non-Indian West―and of the impact of the development of the West on the nation as a whole. Making of the American West surveys the experiences of major social groups in the lands from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from the United States' penetration of the region in the early 19th century to its incorporation into national political, economic, and cultural fabric by the early 20th century. - Amazon

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Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox

Presents the previously unpublished account, by the great anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, of the origins and early months of the Hemenway Expedition to the American Southwest in the late 19th century, which sought to trace the ancestors of the Zuni Indians.

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I.N. Phelps Stokes

This 6 volume work has inspired loving descriptions. The Wikipedia entry[1] is among the best. Google books posts a note in the Bibliographic Society of America's Papers[2] for 1918 which mentions that the 3rd volume has been published. [1]: [2]:

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Bernal Díaz

A follower of Hernando Cortez describes how a small group of Spaniards was able to defeat the mighty Aztecs and lay claim to their territory and treasures for Spain.