Platte River Road Narratives: A Descriptive Bibliography of Travel Over the Great Central Overland Route to Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Montana, and Other Western States and Territories, 1812-1866

Mattes, Merrill J. Forward by James A Michener.

ISBN 10: 0252013425 / ISBN 13: 9780252013423

Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1988

About this Item

4to 632 pp. including Index. description red cloth, dark red cloth on spine, silver titles. light shelfwear, binding square, lightly read, no interior marks, notes. Superb Trail Journal reference, identifying 2,082 journals, summarizing and evaluating each. book weight is four (4) pounds.

Seller Inventory # 1533808

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Platte River Road Narratives: A Descriptive Bibliography of Travel Over the Great Central Overland Route to Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Montana, and Other Western States and Territories, 1812-1866
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252013425
• ISBN 13: 9780252013423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket as issued

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Synopsis

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.