Primary Sources

Exploring the Land

• "Oto Council"(1823)
• "Moveable Skin Lodges of the Kaskaias"(1823)
• General Instruction to his Deputies; By the Surveyor General of the United States(1833)
• A Circular, of the High Council(1846)
• First View of the Big Colorado River(1853)
• Pacific Railroad Survey, Northern Route(1853)
• Zuni Sketches (1853)
• Crossing Hellgate River(1854)
• Old Fort Walla Walla(1854)
• Puget Sound & Mount Raineer(1854)

The Trip Across

• Ho! For California!(1851)
• Advertisements from The Frontier Guardian(1851)
• Overland Immigration(1852)
• Idaho:Six Months in the New Gold Regions(1864)
• The Union Pacific Rail Road Company(1867)
• Homesteads and Preemptions on Kansas and Nebraska(1872)
• Best Thing in the West(1873)
• How to Get Land(1883)

Life in the West

• The Vigilance Call(1856)
• Nebraska Sketches(1859)
• Pacific Appeal(1876)
• "The Negro" from World of California(1857)

Mining

• The Miner's Ten Commandments(1853)
• The Idle and Industrious Miner(1854)
• Mining for Gold in California(1857)
• Prospectus and Geological Survey and Report of the Gregory Gold Mining Company(1863)

Indian Removal

• Description of the Antiquities Discovered in the State of Ohio and Other Western States(1820)
• Memorial of a Delegation ofthe Cherokee Nation od Indians(1830)
• Memorial of the Ladies of Steubenville, Ohio(1830)
• Treaty between the United States of America and the Chippewa, Ottowa and Potawatomie Indians(1835)
• Cherokee Land Lottery(1838)
• More Indian Outrage(1851)
• Execution of 38 Sioux(1883)
• Wars with the California Tribes(1891)

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Last updated July 13, 2005