by Merrill Mattes
foreword by James A. Michener
University of Illinois Press, 1988
Cloth: 978-0-252-01342-3
Library of Congress Classification Z1251.W5M37 1988
Dewey Decimal Classification 016.9178042

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 Matte's authoritative commentary and evaluation, as well as identification of the repository of the source material.