CRAIG SAVOYE

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Adam, George. Dreadful Sufferings and Thrilling Adventures. Ed. William Beschke. Saint Louis, MO: Barclay, 1850.

 

Allen, A.J. Thrilling Adventures, Travels and Explorations of Dr. Elijah White. New York: J.W. Yale, 1859. 

 

Alter, Cecil. Jim Bridger. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. 

 

Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

 

Barry, T.A. and Patten, B.A. Men and Memories of San Francisco in the Spring of ’50. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Company, 1873. 

 

Barstow, David. Recollections of 1849-51 in California. Inverness, CA: The Press of Inverness, 1979. 

 

Barter, James. A Worker on the Transcontinental Railroad. Farmington Hills, MI: Lucent Books, 2003. 

 

Beckwourth, James P. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, as told to Thomas D. Bonner. Ed. Delmont R. Oswald. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972. 

 

Bell, Major Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger or Early Times in Southern California. Los Angeles: Yarnell, Caystile & Mathes, Printers, 1881.

 

Beneman, William, ed. A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849-1850. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 

 

Benson, B.K. Who Goes There? The Story of a Spy in the Civil War. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1900.

 

Beymer, William. On Hazardous Service. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912.

 

Blaisdale, Bob and Rudisel, Christine, eds. Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2014. 

 

Bloss, Roy S. Pony Express: The Great Gamble. Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1959. 

 

Brands, H.W. Age of Gold. New York: Doubleday, 2002.

 

Boessenecker, John. Gold Dust and Gunsmoke: Tales of Gold Rush Outlaws, Gunfighters, Lawmen, and Vigilantes. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. 

 

Bordewich, Fergus. Bound for Canaan. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 

 

Boyd, Belle. Boyd Belle in Camp and Prison. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.

 

Bratt, John. Trails of Yesterday. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1980.

 

Brinton, John H. Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton. New York: The Neale Publishing Co., 1914. 

 

Brown, John Henry. Reminiscences and Incidents of “The Early Days” of San Francisco; Actual Experiences of an Eye-witness, from 1845-50. 1866. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1933.

 

Brown, William W. The Narrative of William W. Browne, A Fugitive Slave. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1969. 

 

Browne, J. Ross. Adventures in the Apache country; a tour through Arizona and Sonora, with notes on the silver regions of Nevada. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869.

 

Buffum, E.G. Six Months in the Gold Mines; From a Journal of Three Years Residence in Upper and Lower California, in 1847-48-49. 1850. Fairfield, CA: James Stevenson Publisher, 2000. 

 

Burnett, Peter H. Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1880.  

 

Burton, Sir Richard. The Look of the West 1860: Across the Plains to California. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1963. 

 

Canfield, Chauncey. Diary of a Forty-Niner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. 

 

Carleton, J. Henry. The Prairie Logbooks. Ed. Louis Pelzer. 1943. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

 

Carrington, Frances C. My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre. Philadelphia and London: Lippincott, 1910. 

 

Carrington, Margaret I. Ab-sa-ra-ka, Land of Massacre. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1878.

 

Chaky, Doreen. Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854-68. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2014.

 

Cheatham, Gary L. “‘Kansas Shall Not Have the Right to Legislative Slavery Out’: Slavery and the 1860 Antislavery Law,” Kansas History 23, no. 3(Autumn 2000): 154-171.

 

Christman, Enos. One Man’s Gold: The Letters & Journal of a Forty-Niner. New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1930.

 

Clappe, Louise. The Shirley Letters From the California Mines, 1851-52. Ed. Marlene Smith-Baranzini. 1949. Santa Clara, CA: Santa Clara University; Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1998.

 

Cleland, Robert Glass. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850-80. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1951.

 

Coit, Daniel Wadsworth. Digging for Gold Without a Shovel: The Letters of Daniel Wadsworth from Mexico to San Francisco. Ed. George P. Hammond. Denver: Old West Publishing, 1967. 

 

Colton, Reverend Walter. Three Years in California. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1949.

 

Cremony, John C. Life Among the Apaches. New York: A. Roman & Company, 1868.

 

Dana, Jr., Richard Henry. Two Years Before the Mast. 1840. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007.

 

Daniel, Larry J. Shiloh: The Battle That Change the Civil War. New York: Touchstone, 1998. 

 

Dary, David. The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore. New York: Penguin, 2002.

 

David, Robert Beebe. Finn Burnett, Frontiersman. 1937. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2003.

 

DeCaro, Jr., Louis A. Fire From the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown.

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Decker, Peter. The Diaries of Peter Decker: Overland to California in 1849 and Life in the Mine, 1850-51. Ed. Helen S. Giffen. Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1966.

 

De Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. 1835. Ed. Richard D. Heffner. New York: Penguin, 1995.

 

Delano, Alonzo. Across the Plains and Among the Diggings. New York: Wilson-Erickson, 1936.

 

DeVoto, Bernardo. Across the Wide Missouri. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947.

 

Dodge, Grenville. Biography of Major General Grenville M. Dodge. (Unpublished) Archive.org, archive.org/details/BiographyOfMajorGeneralGrenvilleM.DodgeFrom1831To1871WrittenAnd.

 

Downs, Edward C. The Great American Scout and Spy. NewYork: Olmsted & Selwood, 1868.

 

Doyle, Susan Badger, ed. Bound for Montana. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2004. 

 

Drury, Bob & Clavin, Tom. The Heart of Everything That Is - The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An Amercian Legend. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.

 

Boessenecker, John, ed. Against the Vigilantes: The Recollections of Dutch Charley Duane. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. 

 

Duke, Basil. History of Morgan’s Cavalry. Cincinnati: Miami Printing & Publishing Co., 1867. 

 

Eccleston, Robert. Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail 1849. Eds. George P. Hammond and Edward H. Hoes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950.

 

Ellis, Daniel. Thrilling Adventures of Daniel Ellis. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867.

 

Ellis, George, ed. Gold Rush Desert Trails to San Diego & Los Angeles in 1849. San Diego: Sand Diego Corral of the Westerners, 1995.  

 

Estabrooks, Henry L. Adrift in Dixie: A Yankee Officer Among the Rebels. New York: Carleton, 1866.

 

Etcheson, Nicole. Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. 

 

Evans, Albert S. A La California Sketches of Life in the Golden State. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Company, 1873.

 

Evans, George W.B. Mexican Gold Trail: The Journal of a Forty-niner. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1945.

 

Favour, Alpheus. Old Bill Williams, Mountain Man. 1936. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. 

 

Fishel, Edwin C. The Secret War for the Union. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. 

 

 

Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. Volumes 1 & 2. 1885. New York: Library of America, 1990.

 

Grinnell, George Bird. Blackfoot Lodge Tales, The Story of a Prairie People. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1962. 

 

Grinnell, George Bird. The Cheyenne Indians. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1924.

         

Gwynne, S.C. Empire of the Summer Moon. New York: Scribner, 2010.

 

Hafen, Leroy R. Broken Hand: The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

 

Hafen, Leroy R. & Ann W. The Old Spanish Trail, Santa Fe to Los Angeles. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clarke, 1954.

 

Hagedorn, Ann. Beyond the River. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

 

Hamilton, William T. My Sixty Years on the Plains. Ed. E.T. Sieber. New York: Forest and Stream Publishing, 1905.

 

Harris, Benjamin Butler. The Gila Trail: The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush. Ed. Richard H. Dillon. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.

 

Harris, Burton. John Colter: His Years in the Rockies. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952. 

 

Haskins, Charles.W. The Argonauts of California. New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1890.

 

Hayes, Judge Benjamin. Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875. 1929. New York: Arno Press, 1976. 

 

Hobbs, Captain James. Wild Life in the Far West. Hartford: Wiley, Waterman and Eaton, 1875.

 

Holliday, J.S. The World Rushed In. NewYork: Simon and Shuster, 1981.

 

Holliday, George H. On the Plains in ’65. London: Forgotten Books, 2015.

 

Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca. Life Among the Piutes Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994.

 

Horan, James D. Confederate Agent. New York: Crown Publishers, 1954. 

 

Horn, Stanley. The Army of Tennessee. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952. 

 

Humfreville, J. Lee. Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stockpile Books, 2002. 

 

Hyde, George E. Spotted Tail’s Folk: A History of the Brule Sioux. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961.

 

Irving, Washington. Adventures of Captain Bonneville. 1850. Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press,   2004.

 

Johns, George Sibley. Philip Henson, the Southern Union Spy. Saint Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1887.

 

Jones, John B. A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary. Ed. Earl Miers. New York: Sagamore Press, 1958. 

 

Kane, Harnett T. Spies For The Blue and Gray. New York: Hanover House, 1954. 

 

Kelly, Charles, and Dale M. Morgan, Old Greenwood. Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965.

 

Kreck, Dick. Hell on Wheels. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003. 

 

Kroeber, Theodore. Ishi in Two Worlds. 1961. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. 

 

Lapp, Rudolph M. Blacks in Gold Rush California. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. 

 

Leonard, Zenas. Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard. 1839. Ed. Milo Milton Quaife. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1934. 

 

Loughborough, Mary. My Cave Life in Vicksburg. 1864. Vicksburg, MS: Vicksburg and Warren County Historical Society, 1990. 

 

Manly, William Lewis. Death Valley in ’49. Ed. Milo Milton Quaife. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley and Sons, 1927. 

 

Markle, Donald E. Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1994. 

 

Marryat, Frank. Mountains and Molehills, or Recollections of a Burnt Journal. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.

 

Mattes, Merrill J. The Great Platte River Road. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

 

McGrath, Roger D. Gunfighters, Highwaymen and Vigilantes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

 

Meecham, A.B. Wigwam & War-path: The Modoc Indian War 1872-3 by an Active Eyewitness. 1875. Oakpast Ltd, 2013.

 

Monaghan, Jay. Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865. Boston: Little, Brown, 1955.

 

Murray, Keith A. The Modocs and Their War. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.

 

Myers, John. San Francisco’s Reign of Terror. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. 

 

Nadeau, Remi Fort Laramie and the Sioux. 1967. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

 

Navarro, Ramón Gil. The Gold Rush Diary of Ramón Gil Navarro. Ed. María del Carmen Ferreyra and David S. Reher. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 

 

Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.

 

Newmark, Harris. Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1916. 

 

Oldroyd, Osborn H. A Soldier’s Story of the Siege Of Vicksburg. 1885. Delhi, India: Facsimile Publisher, 2017.

 

Ormsby, Waterman. The Butterfield Overland Mail. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1942. 

 

Pattie, James O. The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky. Ed. Timothy Flint. Cincinnati: John Wood, 1831.

 

Perkins, Elisha Douglass. The Gold Rush diary/journal of Elisha Douglass Perkins (1823-1852) on the Overland Trail in the spring and summer of 1849. Ed. Thomas D. Clark. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. 

 

Perkins, J.R. Trails, Rails and War, The Life of General G.M. Dodge. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929.

 

Potter, David Morris, ed. Trail to California. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. 

 

Reid, Bernard J. Overland to California with the Pioneer Line: the gold rush diary of Bernard J. Reid. Ed. Mary McDougall Gordon. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985. 

 

Richardson, Albert D. The Secret Service. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1865.

 

Riddle, Jefferson C. Davis. The Indian History of the Modoc War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stockpile Books, 2004.

 

Robinson, Charles. The Kansas Conflict. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. 

 

Robinson, Jacob, A Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition under Colonel Doniphan. 1848. Ed. Carl Cannon. Princeton University Press, 1932.  

 

Ruxton, George Frederick. Life in the Far West. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. 

 

Sage, Rufus B. Rocky Mountain Life. Boston: Wentworth & Co., 1857. 

 

Sarmiento, F.L. Life of Pauline Cushman. Philadelphia: John E. Potter & Co., 1865.

 

Scamehorn, H. Lee, et al, ed. The Buckeye Rovers in the Gold Rush. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1989.

 

Secrest, William. Dangerous Trails: Five Desperados of the Old West. Stillwater, OK: Barbed Wire Press, 1995. 

 

Senkewicz, Robert M. Vigilantes in Gold Rush San Francisco. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985. 

 

Settle, Raymond W., and Mary Lund Settle. Saddles and Spurs. New York: Bonanza, 1955.

 

Shea, William L., and Terrence J. Winschel, Vicksburg is the Key. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 

 

Smith, Azariah. Gold Discovery Journal of Azariah Smith. Ed. David Bigler. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1990. 

 

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Sprague, Stuart Seely, ed. His Promised Land. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. 

 

Stanley, Henry M. My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia. 1895. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 2001.

 

Starr, Stephen Z. Colonel Grenfell’s Wars: The Life of a Soldier or Fortune. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971. 

 

Steele, Rev. John. In Camp and Cabin. Lodi, Wisconsin: J. Steele, 1901.

 

Stewart, George R. Committee of Vigilance: Revolution in San Francisco, 1851. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. 

 

Stewart, Sir William Drummond. Edward Warren. Missoula: Montana Press, 1986.

 

Stillman, J.D.B. The Gold Rush Letters of J.D.B. Stillman. Palo Alto, CA: Lewis Osborne, 1967.

 

Storer, Tracey I., and Lloyd P. Tevis, Jr. California Grizzly. 1955. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.

 

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 1852. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003. 

 

Sword, Wiley. Shiloh: Bloody April. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1974.   

 

Tomlinson, William P. Kansas in 1858: A History of the Recent Troubles in the Territory. New York: H. Dayton, 1859.

 

Townsend, E.D. The California Diary of General E.D. Townsend. Ed. Malcolm Edwards. Pasadena, CA: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1970.

 

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Varon, Elizabeth R. Southern Lady, Yankee Spy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

 

Ware, Capt. Eugene F. The Indian War of 1864. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1960. 

 

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Williams, James. Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad. Philadelphia: A.H. Sickler & Co., 1893.

 

Windeler, Adolphus. The California Gold Rush Diary of a German Sailor. Ed. W. Turrentine Jackson. Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1969.

 

Woolworth, Solomon. The Mississippi Scout. 1867. Charleston, SC: Bibliolife, 2009.

 

Woods, Daniel B. Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings. New York: Harper & Bros., 1851.

 

Wooster, David. Gold Rush Letters. Mt. Pleasant, MI: The Cummings Press, 1972.

 

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