First picture ever made of Yellowstone Lake from watercolor by Henry W. Elliott, 1871. Picture courtesy of Haynes Studios, Inc.
Selected Bibliography for
COLTER’S HELL AND JACKSON’S HOLE
- Allen, Paul, History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1814).
- Alter, J. Cecil, James Bridger (Salt Lake City, 1925).
- Bancroft, H. H., History of Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming, 1540-1888 (San Francisco, 1890).
- Barry, J. Neilson (ed.), “Journal of E. Willard Smith,” Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society (September 1913).
- Bonneville, Captain B. L. E., undated letter from Fort Smith, Arkansas, Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana (Helena), I (1876), 93-97.
- Brackenridge, Henry M., Views of Louisiana (Pittsburgh, 1814).
- Bradbury, John, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1809-1811 (London, 1819), republished in Reuben G. Thwaites (ed.), Early Western Travels, 32 vols. (Cleveland, 1904-1907), V.
- Burpee, Lawrence J. (ed.), Journal of Larocque from the Assiniboine to the Yellowstone, 1805 (Ottawa, 1910).
- Carter, Clarence E. (ed.), Territorial Papers of the United States (Washington, 1934), XIII, Territory of Louisiana-Missouri, 1803-1806 (1948).
- Chittenden, Hiram M., The American Fur Trade of the Far West, 2 vols., ed. by Stallo Vinton (New York, 1936).
- Chittenden, Hiram M. and Richardson, Albert T., Life, Letters and Travels of Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, S. J., 1801-1873 (New York, 1905), 4 vols.
- Chittenden, Hiram M., The Yellowstone National Park, Historical and Descriptive (Cincinnati, 1895).
- Coues, Elliott (ed.), Forty Years a Fur Trader ... Charles Larpenteur, 2 vols. (New York, 1898).
- Coutant, Charles G., History of Wyoming (Laramie, 1899).
- Dale, Harrison C., The Ashley-Smith Explorations (Glendale, 1941).
- DeLacy, Walter W., Map of the Territory of Montana, etc. (St. Louis, 1865).
- DeLacy, Walter W., “A Trip Up the South Snake River in 1863,” Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana, I (1876).
- De Smet, Pierre Jean, Western Missions and Missionaries (New York, 1863).
- DeVoto, Bernard, Across the Wide Missouri (Boston, 1947).
- DeVoto, Bernard (ed.), Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth (New York, 1931).
- Ellison, William H., Life and Adventures of George Nidever (Berkeley, 1937).
- Frost, Donald M., Notes on General Ashley, the Overland Trail and South Pass (Worcester, 1944).
- Grant, Blanche C. (ed.), Kit Carson’s Own Life Story (Taos, 1926).
- Gunnison, John W., The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake (Philadelphia, 1852).
- Hamilton, William T., My Sixty Years on the Plains (New York, 1905).
- Harris, Burton, John Colter, His Years in the Rockies (New York, 1952).
- Irving, Washington, Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1836).
- Irving, Washington, The Rocky Mountains.... The Journal of Captain B. L. E. Bonneville, 2 vols. (Philadelphia. 1837).
- James, Thomas, Three Years Among the Indians, ed. by Walter B. Douglas (St. Louis, 1916), reprinted from original edition of 1846.
- Kennerly, William C., Persimmon Hill: A Narrative of Old St. Louis (Norman, 1948).
- Laut, Agnes, Conquest of the Great Northwest (G. H. Doran Co., 1908).
- Lindsay, Charles, The Big Horn Basin (Lincoln, 1932).
- Mattes, Merrill J., “Behind the Legend of Colter’s Hell: The Early Exploration of Yellowstone National Park,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review (September 1949).
- Mattes, Merrill J., “Jackson Hole, Crossroads of the Western Fur Trade, 1807-1840,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly (April 1946 and January 1948).
- Parker, Samuel, Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains (Ithaca, 1944).
- Phillips, Paul C. (ed.), Life in the Rocky Mountains; A Diary ... by Warren A. Ferris (Denver, 1940).
- Potts, Daniel T., Letters, Yellowstone Nature Notes (September 1947).
- Raynolds, General William F., “Report on the Explorations of the Yellowstone River” (Washington, 1868), Senate Executive Documents, No. 77. 40 Cong. 1 [2] Sess.
- Rollins, Philip A. (ed.), The Discovery of the Oregon Trail (Hunt and Stuart Journals) (New York, 1935).
- Ross, Alexander, The Fur Hunters of the Far West, 2 vols. (London, 1855).
- Russell, Osborne, Journal of a Trapper, edited by Aubrey L. Haines (Portland, 1955).
- Sabin, Edwin L., Kit Carson Days, 2 vols. (New York, 1935).
- Sullivan, M. S., Travels of Jedediah Smith (Santa Ana, 1934).
- Thwaites, Reuben G., Oregon; or, a Short History ... by John B. Wyeth (Early Western Travels) (Cleveland, 1905), XXI.
- Thwaites, Reuben G. (ed.), Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-1806, 8 vols. (New York, 1904-1905), V.
- Topping, E. S., Chronicles of the Yellowstone (St. Paul, 1883).
- Victor, Frances Fuller, The River of the West (Hartford, 1870).
- Vinton, Stallo, John Colter, Discoverer of Yellowstone Park (New York, 1926).
- Wagner, W. F. (ed.), Leonard’s Narrative; Adventures of Zenas Leonard 1831-1836 (Cleveland, 1904).
- Webb, J. Watson (ed.), Altowan, 2 vols. (New York, 1846).
- Wislizenus, F. A., A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in 1839 (St. Louis, 1912).
Colter’s Route 1807-1808 (CONJECTURAL)
Trapper Trails 1811-1840
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