Primary Sources: The American West: Logging & Fur

The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872. Edited, with many critical notes by Elliot Coues.

The Boston Men in the North Pacific, 1787-1800 : The Narratives of William Dane Phelps, William Sturgis, and James Gilchrist Swan

edited from the original manuscript in the William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana in the Yale University Library. With a biography of Osborne Russell and maps of his travels while a trapper in the Rocky Mountains, by Aubrey L. Haines.

V. 1. To 1877 v. 2. From 1865

a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains; together with a short description of California. Also, some account of the fur trade, especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains

The Life of a Logger in the Early Days on the Chippeway. Retold from the recollections of Louie Blanchard by Walker D. Wyman, with the assistance of Lee Prentice.