Books and Articles

Billington, Monroe Lee and Roger D. Hardaway, eds African Americans on the Western Frontier. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1998.
Faragher, John Mack. Women and Men on the Overland Trail. New Haven: Yale University Press, a Yale Nota Bene Book, 2000.
Fremont, John Charles. Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. A reprint of the 1845 edition of the journal of Frémont's expedition exploring the route of the Oregon Trail, with an introduction by Herman J. Viola and Ralph E. Ehrenberg.
Franzwa, Gregory M. Maps of the Oregon Trail. St. Louis: Patrice Press, 1990.
Haines, Aubrey L. Historic Sites along the Oregon Trail. Gerald, Mo.: Patrice Press, 1983.
Jackson, Donald, and Mary Lee Spence, eds. The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont. 3 vols. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970-1980.
Lavender, David. Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail. Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 1985.
Meinig, D. W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, vol. 2, Continental America, 1800-1867. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
The Oregon Trail. New York: Hastings House for the Oregon Trail Memorial Association, 1939.
Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac. New York: The Library of America, 1991. The classical description of travel on the Oregon trail written by the nineteenth- century historian Francis Parkman.
Schlissel, Lillian. Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey. New York: Schocken Books, 1982. As Faragher points out a great deal of what we know about the experiences of travelling on the Oregon Trail comes from women's diaries. In that context the excerpts from the diaries of Lydia Allen Rudd (pp. 187-198), and of Amelia Stewart Knight (pp. 199-216) in this volume are of especial interest, especially because their descriptions include that part of the trail seen in the Core Map.
Wheat, Carl I. Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West 1540-1861. 5 vols. San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1963.
Taylor, Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier - African Americans in the American West 1528-1990 NY: WW Norton & Co., 1998.

On-line Resources

Images of plants:
www.Botany.com

Web sites on the Oregon trail:
www.isu.edu/~trinmich/oregontrail.html. This site provides several diaries, including that of Amelia Stewart Knight, and the full text of Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac.

Supplemental Images
Maps

• Horn's Overland Guide. Hosea B. Horn, "Map to Illustrate Horn's Overland Guide to California and Oregon," in Horn's Overland Guide, from Council Bluffs to the City of Sacremento. New York: J. H. Colton, 1852. Newberry Library call number: Graff 1954.

Images

1. Fort Hall. "Outer View of Fort Hall" and "Inner View of Fort Hall", drawn by Major Osborne Cross. In W. J. Ghent, The Road to Oregon, A Chronicle of the Great Emigrant Trail. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929.
2. Fort Boise. "Fort Boise", drawn by Major Osborne Cross. In W. J. Ghent, The Road to Oregon, A Chronicle of the Great Emigrant Trail. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929.
3. American Falls. "American Falls of the Snake River, Showing the Three Buttes." In Brown, Jennie Broughton. Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1932.
4. Three Buttes. "American Falls of the Snake River, Showing the Three Buttes." In Brown, Jennie Broughton. Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1932.
5. Subterranean River. "Subterranean River." In Frémont, John Charles. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842: and to Oregon and North Carolina in the Years 1843-44. U.S. 28th Cong., 2nd sess. Senate. Ex. doc 174. Washington, D.C: Gales and Seaton, printers, 1845.

Supplemental Texts
Frémont's notes (HTML) (also available date-by-date on the core map)

Descriptions of Traveling the Oregon Trail/Guide Books

• Longsworth, 1853 - 1854. Excerpt from the Diary of Basil Nelson Longsworth, March 15, 1853 to January 22, 1854, covering the period of his migration from Ohio to Oregon. Denver, CO: D. E. Harrington, 1927. Pages 24 - 30. Newberry Library call number: G 89. 516.
• Shively, 1850. Excerpt from Shively, J. M. Route and Distances to Oregon and California. Washington: W. Greer, 1846. Newberry Library call number: Ayer 128.3 S55 1846.
• Traveling the Oregon Trail as a Child. Excerpt from Lord, Elizabeth. Reminiscences of Eastern Oregon. Portland, OR: The Irwin-Hudson Co., 1903. Newberry Library call number: Graff 2534.
• The Cost of the Journey. Excerpt from The Emigrant's Guide to New Mexico, California, and Oregon; Giving the Different Overland and Sea Routes. New York: John Disturnell, 1850. Newberry Library call number: Graff 5306.
• Frémonts Route. Excerpt from "Frémonts Route to Califronia and Oregon." In The Emigrant's Guide to New Mexico, California, and Oregon; Giving the Different Overland and Sea Routes. New York: John Disturnell, 1850, p. 9-12. Newberry Library call number: Graff 5306.

Grades K - 2 Resources

• Horn's Overland Guide
• Selections from images 1-6 above
• Descriptions of Traveling the Oregon Trail (see Supplemental Texts and On-line Resources)

• Horn's Overland Guide
• Selections from images 1-6 above
• Descriptions of Traveling the Oregon Trail (see Supplemental Texts and On-line Resources)
• Selection from Frémont's notes (also available date-by-date on the core map)

• Horn's Overland Guide
• Descriptions of Traveling the Oregon Trail (see Supplemental Texts and On-line Resources)
• Selection from Frémont's notes (also available date-by-date on the core map)

• Horn's Overland Guide
• Descriptions of Traveling the Oregon Trail (see Supplemental Texts and On-line Resources)
• Selection from Frémont's notes (also available date-by-date on the core map)