#virtualoregontrail Bibliography

The following published and online sources were used in researching information for the #virtualoregontrail series of blog posts:

• Clark, Keith and Tiller, Lowell, Terrible Trail: the Meek Cutoff, 1845 (Bend, Oregon: Maverick Publications, 1966)

• Cooley, Michael F. and Mary Lou, The Transcribed Diary of Eli Casey Cooley as he came across the Oregon Trail and the Meek Cutoff in 1845, November 2004 for the Officer-Cooley Family Association www.oregonpioneers.com/CooleyDiary.htm 

• Coons, Frederica B., Trail to Oregon (Portland, Oregon: Binford & Mort, 1954)

• Eaton, Herbert, The Overland Trail  (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons / Capricorn Books, 1974)

• James Field's diary, as published in the Willamette Farmer https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn85042522/

• Hill, William E., The Oregon Trail, Yesterday and Today (Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 2000)

• Lenox, Edward Henry, Overland to Oregon – in the tracks of Lewis and Clark (Oakland, Calif: Limited Edition edited by Robert Whitaker, 1904) 

• Lockley, Fred.  Captain Sol Tetherow- Wagon Train Master;  Personal Narrative of his son, Sam Tetherow, who crossed the plains to Oregon, in 1845, and Personal Narrative of Jack McNemee, who was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1848, and whose father built the fourth house in Portland.  Published by Fred Lockley, 1243 East Stark St., Portland. Oregon; Date Unknown. https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu

• McGrane, Reginald. The Panic of 1837: Some Financial Problems of the Jacksonian Era (New York, NY: Russell & Russell, 1965) 

• Pierce, Lois A., Lost Immigrants of 1845 and The Blue Bucket Gold  (Shelton, Washington: Shelton-Mason County Journal, 1962)

• Ragen, Brooks Geer, The Meek Cutoff, Tracing the Oregon Trail's Lost Wagon Train of 1845 (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2013)

• Schlissel, Lillian, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey (New York, Schocken Books, 1982)

• Sharp, James Roger, The Jacksonians Versus the Banks: Politics in the States After the Panic of 1837 (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1970) 

• Smith, Ross A., Oregon Overland: Three Roads of Adversity http://oregonoverland.com/

• Wilbur, Sanford R & Sally H, The McCully Train: Iowa to Oregon 1852 (Gresham, Oregon: SYMBIOS, 2000)

• Meek Cutoff, 1845, www.oregonhistorictrailsfund.org/trails/meek-cutoff-1845/

• Reasons for Westward Expansion - History