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News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803-1865: Original Narratives of Overland Travel and Adventure Selected from the Wagner-Camp and Becker Bibliography of Western Americana, Vol. 1: Early Explorers 1803-1812 / Fur Hunters, 1813-1847
EARLY EXPLORERS, 1803-1812
John Sibley, 1803, A letter from Louisiana
Thomas Jefferson and Moses Austin, 1804, Message, 8 November
William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, 1806, Letter, 23 September
Thomas Jefferson, 1806, Message, 2 December [Dunbar-Hunter, Freeman-Custis, Pike]
William H. Thomas, 1809, Voyage to the Mandan village
George C. Sibley, 1812, Tour to the Indian country
FUR HUNTERS, 1813-1847
Robert Stuart and Wilson P. Hunt, 1813, American enterprize
Anonymous [Ashley-Ricaree fight], 1823, Ft. Kiowa Letter
Thomas H. Benton, 1824, Yellow Stone post, treaties
James Hall, 1825, Letters from the West [Hugh Glass]
Henry Atkinson, 1826, Expedition up the Missouri
Francis Baylies, 1826, Northwest coast [Ruddock’s fiction]
Daniel T. Potts, 1826-27, Letters from the Rocky Mountains
Jedediah S. Smith, 1827, Country S.W. of Great Salt Lake
Thomas H. Benton, 1829, Condition of fur trade [Ashley and Campbell]
James S. Craig, 1831, Bean expedition
Robert Isaacs, 1832, Perils of a mountain hunt
Philip L. Edwards, 1834, Nathaniel J. Wyeth’s second expedition
Elbert Herring, 1835, Licenses to trade with Indians
Robert Campbell, 1836, Letters from the Rockies
William M. Anderson, 1837, Adventures in the Rocky Mountains
David L. Brown, 1845, Three years in the Rocky Mountains
Jacob Thompson, 1845, Bent, St. Vrain, & Co
James Kirker, 1847, Don Santiago Kirker, Indian fighter
462 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1996
About the author
David Archer White
11 booksDAVID ARCHER WHITE (Jan. 22, 1927 - Nov. 23, 2004)
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College with an M.S. and PhD. in geology from the University of Minnesota, he worked as a senior research geologist with Exxon for 32 years. During retirement he was a consultant in numerous countries teaching a system for assessing oil and gas potential. He later edited a nine volume series about the American westward movement entitled "News of the Plains and Rockies 1803-1865" published by the Arthur H. Clark Company. Most recently, he was both a student as well as a history teacher at University of Texas SAGE. He traveled extensively, loved reading, enjoyed the outdoors, and delighted in time with his family at the cottage in Wisconsin.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College with an M.S. and PhD. in geology from the University of Minnesota, he worked as a senior research geologist with Exxon for 32 years. During retirement he was a consultant in numerous countries teaching a system for assessing oil and gas potential. He later edited a nine volume series about the American westward movement entitled "News of the Plains and Rockies 1803-1865" published by the Arthur H. Clark Company. Most recently, he was both a student as well as a history teacher at University of Texas SAGE. He traveled extensively, loved reading, enjoyed the outdoors, and delighted in time with his family at the cottage in Wisconsin.
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