Selections from Plains and the Rockies
Series: Indigenous Peoples: North America; Indigenous Peoples: North America
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1800
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Sources; Description and travel; Frontier and pioneer life; Discovery and exploration
Description: The Plains and the Rockies, a cornerstone collection of the early history of the West, is based on the H.R. Wagner and C.L. Camp bibliography of the same name published in 1920. Included are books, magazine articles, federal documents and newspaper articles describing personal experiences written between 1800 and 1865. The material selected covers a geographic scope from the region lying between the Missouri River and the Sierra Nevada Cascades, through Canada east of the Red River, and from Mexico to the Arctic. The Plains and the Rockies provides access to the basic documents on the Lewis and Clark expedition, the fur trade and wagon trains. The travels of the early Mormons, railroad surveys and other primary source information about the early West are also included.
Notes: Reproduction of the originals from the Lost Cause Press.

Date range of documents: 1800-1865.