The Oregon Trail (“You Have Died of Dysentery”)

Addis, Cameron. “The Whitman Massacre.” The Oregon Encyclopedia. Last updated May 21, 2018. Accessed at: https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/whitman_massacre/#.XC2GB1xKhPY.

Bicknell, John. Lincoln’s Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2017. 

Cheathem, Mark A. Andrew Jackson: Southerner. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2013.

Dary, David. The Oregon Trail: An American Saga. New York: Alfred K. Knopf, 2004. 

Flora, Stephenia. “Emigrants To Oregon In 1846.” Oregon Pioneers. Accessed December 30, 2018 at: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1846.htm.

Hastings, Lansford W. The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California. Reprint, Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1994. 

Mason, Maryann. “Pioneer Family Faces Tragedy on the Oregon Trail.” Jefferson Public Radio. Last updated September 20, 2013. Accessed at: https://www.ijpr.org/post/pioneer-family-faces-tragedy-oregon-trail#stream/0.

Miller, Brandon Marie. Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013. 

Nokes, Greg. “Black Exclusion Laws in Oregon.” The Oregon Encyclopedia. Last updated March 17, 2018. Accessed at: https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/exclusion_laws/#.XC2WGlxKhPZ.

Rolle, Andrew. John Charles Fremont: Character as Destiny. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. 

Silbey, Joel H. Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics. Lanham, MD, 2005.

Smith, Sidney. “Sidney Smith Oregon Trail Diary, 1839.” Pacific University Archives. Forest Grove, Oregon. Accessed January 2, 2019 at: http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv39672/pdf.