Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska

by Merrill J. Mattes

Scotts Bluff National Monument was carved out of the public domain by Presidential proclamation on December 12, 1919, and contains more than 5 square miles. A superintendent, whose address is Box 136, Gering, Nebr., is in immediate charge.

Suggested Readings

Chittenden, Hiram M., American Fur Trade of the Far West. 2 vols. Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Inc., New York, 1936.

Driggs, Howard R., Westward America (with reproductions of watercolor paintings by William H. Jackson). Somerset Books, Inc., New York, 1942.

Federal Writers’ Project, The Oregon Trail. Hastings House, New York, 1939.

Ghent, W. J., The Road to Oregon. Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1929.

Hulbert, Archer B., Forty-Niners, the Chronicle of the California Trail. Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., New York, 1931.

Jackson, Joseph H., ed., Gold Rush Album. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1949.

Mattes, Merrill J., “A History of Old Fort Mitchell.” Nebraska History, XXIV, 71-82 (Apr.-June 1943).

— — —, “Hiram Scott, Fur Trader.” Nebraska History, XXVI, 127-162 (July-Sept. 1945).