NPS Publications: Historical Background for the Rocky Mountain National Park (Bibliography)

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Historical Background for the Rocky Mountain National Park

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Part 1. Source Materials, Books Dealing Primarily with North Central Colorado, and Texts.

ASHLEY, WILLIAM H. MSS.
1825	Letter to General Atkinson, dated St. Louis, December 1, 1825. MSS of Missouri Historical Society. Quoted by Dale, 1918, 117-161.
BUGGS, MAE LACY
1918	The Queen Jewel of the Rockies. Boston, the Page Company, 1918, map, 54 plates.
BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE
1890	History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888. Vol. XXV of the Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. San Francisco, the History Company, 1890.
BANDLIER,
N.D.	"The Expeditions of Villasur" in Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America, V. 179-206.
BIRD, ISABELLA L.
1881	A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. 3rd edition.
BOLTON, HERBERT E.
1917	"French Intrusions into New Mexico, 1749-1752." In the Pacific Ocean History, edited by H. Morse Stephens and Herbert E. BoltOn, pp. 389-407. New York, the Macmillan Co., 1917.
1920	The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1920.
BONNER, T. D.
1856	The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1856.
BOWLES, SAMUEL
1869	The Switzerland of America: A Summer Vacation in the Parks and Mountains of Colorado. Springfield,Mass., Samuel Bowles & Co., 1869.
BOYD, DAIRD
1890	A History: Greeley and the Union Colony of Colorado. Greeley, Colorado, the Greeley Tribune Press, 1890.
BOYER, WARREN E.
1923	Vanishing Trails of Romance. Denver, Colorado, Great a West Publishers, 1923.
BURT, S. M. and BERTHOUD, E. L.
1861	The Pocky Mountain Gold Regions, Containing Sketches of its History, Geography, Botany, Geology, Mineralogy, and Gold Mines, and their Present Operations. 2nd ed. Business directory, Denver City, Jefferson Territory, Rocky Mountain News Printing Company.
CHAPIN, FREDERICK H.
1889	Mountaineering in Colorado: the Peaks about Estes Park. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1889.
CHITTENDEN, HIRAM MARTIN
1902	The American Fur Trade of the Far West. New York, Francis P. Harper, 3 vols.
COUES, ELLIOTT, ED.
1898	The Journal of Jacob Fowler.
DALE, HARRISON CLIFFORD
1918	The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829, with the original journals edited by Harrison Clifford Dale. Cleveland, the Arthur H. Clark Co., 1918.
DICKINSON, ANNA E.
1879	A Ragged Register. New York, Harper & Bros.
DODGE, COLONEL HENRY
1836	Journal of the March of a Detachment of Dragoons under the Command of Colonel Dodge, During the Summer of 1835. U. S. War Dept., House Dec., No. 181, 24th Congress., 1st Sess. in Serial No. 289.
DUNN, W. E.
1915	"Spanish Reaction Against the French Advance Toward New Mexico," in Mississippi Valley historical review, Dec., 352.
UNRAVEN, FOURTH EARL OF
1880	"A Colorado Sketch" in the Nineteenth Century, A Monthly Review, VIII, No. 43, Sept., 1880, 445-457. London, O. Kegens Paul & Co., 1880.
FARIS, JOHN T.
1930	Roaming the Rockies: Through the National Parks and National Forests of the Rocky Mountain Wonderland.
FARNHAM, THOMAS J.
1843	Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains and in the Oregon Territory. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1930.
FREMONT, J. C.
1845	A Report on an Exploration of the Country Lying Between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains on the Line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers. Washington, March 1, 1843.
FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES.
1887	Memoirs of my Life, Including in the narrative Five Journeys of Western Exploration During the Years, 1842-3-4, 1845-6-7, 1848-9, 1853-4. Vol. I. Belford Clark & Co., Chicago & New York.
GALLATIN, ALBERT
1836	Map based on knowledge acquired by Smith and Ashley. Accompanied Gallatin's "Synopsis of the Indian Tribes Within the United States East of the Rocky Mountains and in the British and Russian Possessions of North America." In American Antiquarian Society Trans actions, Vol. II, Cambridge, Mass.
GANNETT, HENRY
1906	A Gazetteer of Colorado. U. S. Dept. of Interior, Geol. Survey, Bull. No. 291, Series F, Geography, 51.
GOODWIN, CARDINAL
1922	The Trans-Mississippi West (1802-1853): A History of its Acquisition and Settlement. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1922.
GREENHAW, ROBERT
1844	Map of the western and middle portions of North America, to illustrate the history of California, Oregon, and other countries on the Northwest Coast of America. In the History of Oregon and California. London, John Munay.
1840	Map. The Northwest Coast of North America and Adjacent Territories. In Memoir, historical and political, on the Northwest Coast of North America. Washington, Sen. Dec. 174, 26th Cong., 1st Sess.
HAFEN, LE ROY R. and GHENT, M. J.
1931	Chief of the Mountain Men. Denver, Colo., the Old West Publishing Company.
HAFEN, LE ROY R.
1928	"Fort Jackson and the Early Fur Trade on the South Platte". In the Colorado Magazine, V, No. 1, Feb., 9-17.
HAFEN, L. R.
1925	"The Early Fur Trade Posts on the South Platte." In the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XII, No. 3, Dec., 334-341.
HAFEN, LE ROY R.
1933	Colorado, the Story of a Western Commonwealth. Denver, the Peerless Pub. Company, 1933.
HAGUE, J. D.
1870	Mining Industry, with Geological Contributions by Clarence King. Washington, Gov't. Print. Off., 1870. U. S. Geol. exploration of the 40th parallel. Report Vol. III.
HART, STEPHEN HARDING, and HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER, Editors
1932	Zebulon Pike's Arkansan Journal: in Search of the Southern Louisiana Purchase Boundary Line. Denver, Stewart Commission of Colorado College and the Denver Public Library. The Charles B. Voorhis series of Overland to the Pacific, Vol. I.
HASSE, ADELAIDE R.
	Reports of Explorations. U. S. Office of Supt. of Documents, Washington.
HAYDEN, FREDERICK V.
	Notes on the Surface Features of the Colorado or Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. n. t. p. Geog. and Geol. Survey, R. M. R. Bulls. 1874-5, no. 4, pp. 215-20.
HAYDEN, PROF. F. V.
1880	The Great West, its Attractions and Resources. Bloomington, Ill., Charles R. Brodix, 1880.
HAYDEN, F. V.
1881	Geological and Geographical atlas of Colorado. U. S. Dept. of Interior, Geological and Geographical Surveys of the Territories. New York, Julius Bien, Lithographer, 1881.
HOLLISTER, OVANDO JAMES
	The Mines of Colorado. Springfield, Colo., S. Bowles & Co.
IRVING, WASHINGTON
1837	The Rocky Mountains, or Scares, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West. Digested from the journal of Capt. B. L. E. Bonneville. Phila., Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 2 vols.
JACKSON, WILLIAM H., in collaboration with Howard R. Driggs
1929	The Pioneer Photographer: Rocky Mountain Adventures with a Camera. Pioneer Life Series, New York, World Book Company, 1929.
JAMES, EDWIN, Compiler
1823	An Account of our Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1820. By order of Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Maj. S. H. Long of the U. S. Top. Engineers. London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 3 vols.
KEARNY, STEPHEN W.
	"Report of a Summer Campaign to the Rocky Mountains, 1846, Sen. Ex. Doc. 1, 29th Cong., 1st Sess., Serial No. 470.
KING, CLARENCE
1876	Report of the geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. Article "Colorado Range" by Arnold Hague. U. S. Dept. of Interior, Washington, 1876.
KINGSLEY, GEORGE HENRY
1900	Notes on Sport and Travel. With a Memoir by his Daughter, Mary H. Kingsley; London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
LEE, WILLIS T.
1917	The Geologic Story of the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. U. S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Washington Gov't Print. Off., 1917.
MILLS, ENOS A.
1924	The Rocky Mountain National Park, with a Foreword by Robert M. Johnson. Memorial edition. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924.
1910	Wild Life on the Rockies. London, Constable & Co., Ltd. Boston; and New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
1920	The Adventures of a Nature Guide. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.
1911	The Spell of the Rockies. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
1915	The Rocky Mountain Wonderland. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1915.
MORRIS, MAURICE O'CONNOR
1864	Rambles in the Rocky Mountains with a Visit to the Gold Fields of Colorado. London, Smith, Elder & Co.
NEIHARDT, JOHN G.
1920	The Splendid Wayfaring. The Story of the Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith and his Comrades, the Ashley-Henry Men. New York, the Macmillan Co., 1920.
PARKER, REVEREND SAMUEL
	Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, 1835, 36, and 37. Ithaca, New York, 1838, 1st ed. Auburn, N. Y., 1846, 5th ed.
PARKMAN, FRANCIS, JR.
1849	The California and Oregon Trail: Being Scetches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. New York, Geo. P. Putnam, 1849.
PARSONS, EUGENE
1911	A Guidebook to Colorado with Maps and Illustrations. Boston, Little, Brown & Co.
PATTIE, JAMES OHIO
1831	The Personal Narrative of James Ohio Pattie of Kentucky. Edited by Timothy Flint. Cincinnati, John H. Wood, 1831.
PAXSON, FREDERIC LOGAN
1906	A Preliminary Bibliography of Colorado History. Reprinted from the Univ. of Colo. Studies III, Ne. 3, June, 1906, Boulder, Colo.
PETERS, DEWITT C.
1859	The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nester of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself. New York, W. R C. Clark & Meeker, 1859.
RICHARDS & COMPANY
1874	Summering in Colorado. Denver.
RUXTON, GEORGE FREDERICK
1915	In the Old West; as it Was in the Days of Kit Carson and the Mountain Men. Outing Adventure Library, New York, Outing Publishing Co.
SABIN, EDWIN L.
1914	Kit Carson Days (1809-1868). Chicago, A. C. Mc Clurg & Co.
(SAGE, RUFUS B.)
1846	Scenes in the Rocky Mountains and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies; or Notes by the Way . . . with a Description of the Countries Passed thru Including their Geography, Geology, Resources, Present Condition, and the Different Nations Inhabiting Them, By a New Englander. Philadelphia, Carey & Hart.
1855	Wild scenes in Kansas and Nebraska, The Rocky Mountains, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies. 3rd revised ed. Phila., J. D. Miller, 1855.
1857	Rocky Mountain Life. Boston, Wentworth & Co., 1857.
SMILEY, JEROME C.
1913	Semi-Centennial History of the State of Colorado. Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co., 2 vols.
STODDARD, ANNA M.
1907	A Biography of Isabella (Bird) Bishop. London, John Murray.
TALBOT, THEODORE
1931	The Journals of Theodore Talbot, 1843 and 1849-52, with the Fremont Expedition and with the First Military Company in Oregon Territory. Portland, Ore., Metropolitan Press.
TAYLOR, BAYARD
1867	Colorado: A Summer Trip. New York, G. P. Putnam & Son.
THOMAS, ALFRED BARNABY
1924	"Spanish Expeditions into Colorado," in the Colorado Magazine, I, No. 7, Nov., 289-300.
THOMAS, A. B.
1928	Spanish Expeditions Northeast of New Mexico, 1696-1719. Ph. D. thesis in history dept. of University of California, Berkeley, Jan.
THWAITES, REUBEN GOLD, Editor
1905	Early Western Travels, 1748-1846. Vols. XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, "James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820." Cleveland, Ohio. The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1905.
THWAITES, REUBEN GOLD
1904	A brief History of Rocky Mountain Explorations, with Especial Reference to the Expedition of Lewis and Clark. New York, Appleton & Co., 1904.
1906	Early Western Travels 1748-1846. A series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travels, description of the aborigines, and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West during the period of early American settlement. 25 vols. Cleveland, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1906.
TOLL, ROGER W., Editor
1929	"The Hayden survey in Colorado in 1873 and in 1874; letters from James T. Gardiner". In the Colorado Magazine, VI, No. 4, July, 146-156.
U. S. ARMY, Engineer Dept.
1889	Report upon U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, in 7 vols. Washington, Gov't. Print. Off., 1889.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
	Thirteenth census of the United States taken in the year 1910. Statistics for Colorado. Washington, Gov't. Print. Off.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SEMICENTENNIAL PUBLICATIONS (1877-1927)
1927	Volume IV. Colorado: Short studies of its past and present. (By various authors) Boulder, Colorado, Univ. of Colo.
VESTAL, STANLEY
1928	Kit Carson, the Happy Warrior of the Old West. A biography. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin Co.
WAGNER, HENRY R.
1921	The Plains and the Rockies: a Bibliography of Original Narratives of Travel and Adventure, 1800-1865. San Francisco, John Howell, 1921.
WARREN, GOUVERNEUR KEMBLE
1862	Map. Section of map compiled in Pacific Railroad Office, with additions designed to illustrate the locations and reservations of the Indian tribes of the Missouri Valley, compiled by Lt. Warren, T. E. Contributions to the Ethnography and Philology of the Indian tribes of the Missouri Valley. Phila., C. Sherman & Son, 1862.
1861	Memoir to accompany the map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi R. to the Pacific Ocean. Vol. XI, Pacific R. R. Reports. Washington, Geo. W. Bowman, printer.
WENDELS, ANNE
	French Interest in and Activities on the Spanish Border of Louisiana, 1717-1753. Ms. thesis. History Dept., Univ. of Calif.
WIED-NEUWIED, MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDER PHILIPP, PRINZ VON
1832-34	Map. In atlas volume of Thwaites, Early Western Travels, Cleveland, 1906. Orig. German ed. of the journal and maps dated 1839-1841. The exploration was up the Missouri in 1832-1834.
WILLARD, JAMES F., Editor
1918	"The Union Colony at Greeley, Colorado, 1869-1871." In Univ. of Colo. Hist. Coll. Vol. I, Boulder, Colo.
WISLIZENUS, F. A.
1840	Ein Ausflug nach den Felsen-Gebirgen im Jahre 1839. St. Louis, Mo., Wilh. Weber, 1840.

Part II. Related Materials

ALBRIGHT, HORACE M. and TAYLOR, FRANK J.
1929	"Oh Ranger!" A Book About the National Parks. Stanford Univ., Calif., Stanford University Press.
APPALACHIA.
BAILLIE-GROHMAN, WM. A.
1882	Camps in the Rockies, Being a Narrative of Life on the Frontier and Sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an Account of the Cattle Ranches of the West. 2nd ed. London, 1882.
BECKWITH, E. G.
	In Pacific Railroad Reports, Vol. II, Part 1.
BLACKMORE, WILLIAM
1869	Colorado: its Resources, Parks, and Prospects as a New Field for Emigration. London.
BOLTON, HERBERT E.
1921	The Spanish Borderlands: a Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest. The Chronicles of America, New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, Vol. XXIII.
CARVALHO, S. N.
1858	Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Col. Fremont's Last Expedition. New York, Derby & Jackson.
COYNER, DAVID H.
1859	The Lost Trappers: a Collection of Interesting Scenes and Events in the Rocky Mountains. Cincinnati, Anderson, Gates & Wright. First ed. 1847.
CROSS, ROSELLE THEODORE
1921	My Mountains. Boston, the Stratford Co., 1921.
DELLENBAUGH, FREDERICK
1908	Breaking the Wilderness. New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons.
FARIS, JOHN T.
1920	Seeing the Far West. 113 illus,, 2 maps. J. B. Lippincott, Phila.
FOSSETT, FRANK 1878
	Colorado: a Historical, Descriptive, and Statistical Work on the Rocky Mountain Gold and Silver Mining Region. Denver, Daily Tribune, 1878.
FRANCE, L. B. (BOURGEOIS)
1888	Mountain Trails and Parks in Colorado. Denver.
GREATORIX, ELIZA
1873	Summer Etchings in Colorado. Now York, G. P. Putnam's Sons.
GREELEY, HORACE
1860	An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859. New York, G. M. Saxton, Barker & Co.
GREENWOOD, GRACE (pseud.) Mrs. Sara Jane (Clark) Lippincott.
1873	New life in New Lands: Notes of Travel. New York, J. B. Ford and Company, 1873.
INGERSOLL, ERNEST
1885	The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond. Chicago, R. R. Donnelly & Sons, 1885.
JACKSON, W. H.
1894	The Rocky Mountains: Pictures of Magnificent Scenes . . . Descriptive text by Stanley Wood. Denver, Colorado, H. H. Tammen, 1894.
JEFERS, LE ROY 1922
	The Call of the Mountains, Rambles Among the Mountains and Canyons of the United States and Canada. Now York, Dodd, Mend and Company, 1922.
JOHNSON, CLIFTON
1913	Highways and Byways of the Rocky Mountains. New York, the Macmillan Company, 1913. New edition. One of the series entitled American Highways and Byways.
ROBERTS, EDWARDS
1888	Shoshone and Other Western Wonders, with a preface by Charles Francis Adams. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1888.
RUXTON, GEORGE F. ESQ.
1848	Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1848.
RUXTON, GEORGE FREDERICK
1916	Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains: a True Tale of Rough Adventure in the Mexican War. Edited by Horace Kephart. Outing Adventure library. New York, Outing Publishing Company, 1916.
STEWART, MIRABEL MINNIE
1917	The Explorations of Lieutenant Emory and Lieutenant Abert in the Southwest, 1845-1847. M. A. Thesis in history, University of California, Berkeley, Cal. December, 1917.
U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT
1874	Map of the Military Department of the Platte, Wyoming. Washington, 1874.
WALLACE, DILLON
1911	Saddle and Camp in the Rockies: An Expert's Picture of Game Conditions in the Heart of our Hunting Country. New York, Outing Publishing Company, 1911.
WHITNEY, CASPAR: GRINNELL, GEORGE BIRD: WISTER.
1904	Musk-ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat. New York, the Macmillan Company, 1904. American Sportsman's Library edited by Casper Whitney.
YARD, ROBERT STERLING
1916	The National Park Portfolio. U. S. Government, Department of the Interior, Washington, 1916.
WALLIHAN, S. S.
1871	The Rocky Mountain Directory and Colorado Gazetteer for 1871.... Denver, S.S. Wallihan & Company, 1871.

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