Clark, John H. – A Trip Across the Plains in 1852

Connor, T. J. – Diary, 1853 to Oregon

Cornell, William – Description of the Route to Oregon, 1852

Cornwall, Pierre Barlow – Life Sketch, Crossing the Plains, 1848

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Cornwall, Bruce. Life Sketch of Pierre Barlow Cornwall. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1906

Chapter II: Crossing the Plains

Cramer, Thomas – Journal, 1859 to California

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Cramer’s Journal Containing Incidents of Travel Across the Plains from Kansas to California in 1859, by Thomas Cramer

Crawford, Medorem – Diary, 1842 to Oregon

Currier, Cyrus – Diary, 1849

Curtis, Waters – Letters, 1849

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“Life on the Plains.” Illinois Daily Journal [Springfield, Illinois], August 8, 1849

 

Daigh, James – Diary, Nuggets From ’49: An Account of Pike County Men in the Gold Rush

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Hannant, Owen. Nuggets From ’49: An Account of Pike County Men in the Gold Rush Condensed from the diary of James Daigh. Fairfield, Washington: Fairfield Press, 1985

Dale, Matthew H. – Life in the Pike’s Peak Region: Letters, 1859

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Life in the Pike’s Peak Region: Letters of Matthew H. Dale. Edited by Robert G. Athearn. The Colorado Magazine of the State Historical Society. Vol. XXXII, No. 2, April 1955, Denver, Colorado.

Dalton, John E. – Diary, 1852 to California

Darby & Miller – History of California, 1850

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Merrill Mattes research notes

Davidson, J. N. – Letters, 1850

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Letters to his wife Mary and to his father John Nelson

Davis, Rev. Henry T. – Solitary Places Made Glad, Observations and Experiences for Thirty-Two Years in Nebraska,1890

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Davis, Rev. Henry T. Solitary Places Made Glad, Observations and Experiences for Thirty-Two Years in Nebraska. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe, 1890

Day, Elizabeth – 1846

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Chapter X – Off for the Farthest West

Chapter XI – Across the Plains