Platte River Road Narratives

Download or read book Platte River Road Narratives written by Merrill J. Mattes and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This massive annotated bibliography of all known significant eyewitness accounts of 19th-century central overland fills a conspicuous gap in historical literature, and will greatly accelerate research, writing, and collecting in this important phase of western. Platte River Road Narratives includes not only all identifiable overland accounts, but also a far greater number of all identifiable in manuscript form only. The format for over 2,000 entries allows for identification of the author, the form of the passage, overland trip, and Matte's authoritative commentary and evaluation, as well as identification of the repository of the source material.