Breaking the Wilderness / The Story of the Conquest of the Far West, From the Wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca, to the First Descent of the Colorado by Powell, and the Completion of the Union Pacific Railway, With Particular Account of the Exploits of Trappers and Traders

by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

[94] Gregg, Commerce of the Prairies.

[95] Reminiscences of a Ranger.

[96] History of the American Fur Trade—an admirable work. He criticises Bancroft for speaking of Irving's book as The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, but this was the title of the edition of 1849.

[97] Early California Reminiscences, by General John Bidwell, in Out West Magazine, March, 1904, p. 286.

[98] Travels in the Interior of North America, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied, translated from the German by H. Evans Lloyd.

[99] See Catlin's Eight Years.

[100] In the works of H. H. Bancroft may be found lists of books on the Wilderness.

[101] How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon, by O. W. Nixon. It is now stated that the importance ascribed to Whitman's labours is exaggerated, and that he had little to do with "saving" Oregon.

[102] The method of expressing astonishment was to cover the mouth with one hand.

[103] Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., by Thomas J. Farnham.