Platte River Road Narratives

by Merrill J. Mattes

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252013425
• ISBN13: 9780252013423
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.8" x 11.3"