Douglas County Topic Indexes
Cherokee Trail
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Hafen, LeRoy R. Overland Routes to the Gold Fields, 1859 from contemporary diaries. Philadelphia: Porcupine Press, 1974. p. 19-55, 217-262, 285-320.
Fremont, John Charles, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1943-'44. Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845. p. 1-6, 108-123.
Kellogg, Daniel. "Across the Plains in 1858" in The Trail: A magazine for Colorado 5, no. 7:1-10
Kellogg, Daniel. "Across the Plains in 1858" in The Trail: A magazine for Colorado 5, no. 8:5-12
Beiber, Ralph P. ed. "Diary of a Journey to the Pike’s Peak Gold Mines in 1859." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 14, no. 3:360-379. [December 1927]
Hafen, LeRoy R., ed. “The Voorhees Diary of the Lawrence Party’s Trip to Pike’s Peak, 1858” Colorado Magazine 12:41-54.
Hammond, George P. ed. Campaigns in the West. Tuscon, Arizona: Arizona Pioneers Historical Society, 1949. p. iv-xi, 51-66.
Hafen, LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen, ed. To the Rockies and Oregon: 1839 – 1842: with diaries and accounts by Sidney Smith, Amos Cook, Joseph Holman, E. Willard Smith, Francis Fletcher, Joseph Williams, Obadiah Oakley, Robert Shortess [and] T.J. Farnham. Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1955. p. 150-195.
Franklin, William Buel. "March to South Pass: Lieutenant Wiliam B. Franklin's Journal of the Kearney Expedition of 1845." Washington: Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers, June 1979. p. v-xiv, 1-37.
Marcy, Randolph B. The Prairie Traveller: the classis handbook for America's Pioneers. New York: Perigee Books, 1994. p. vii-29.
Oakes, D. C. "The Man Who Wrote the Guidebook." The Trail: A magazine for Colorado 2, no. 7:7-15.
Sanford, Albert B. "The Cherokee Trail and the First Discovery of Gold on Cherry Creek" Colorado Magazine 8, no. 1: 30-35.
Fynn, A. J. "Furs and Forts of the Rocky Mountain West." Colorado Magazine 8, no. 6:209-222.
Willard, James F. "Sidelights on the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, 1858-59," Colorado Magazine 12, no. 1:3-13.
Hafen, LeRoy R. Pike's Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks of 1859. Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1941. p. 21- 80, 297-346.
Shaw, Dorothy Price. "Jimmy's Camp on the Cherokee Trail," Colorado Magazine 27:63-72.
Marr, Josephine Lowell. "Many questions have been asked about the Jimmy Camp Trail..." Douglas County News, October 2, 1975. [Walk with our pioneers].
"Fagan's ghost haunted travelers," The Express, June 6, 1979.
Marr, Josephine Lowell. Douglas County: A Historical Journey. Gunnison: B & B Printers, 1983. p. 15-32.
Bangs, Richard. "Cherokee Trail was Colorado's interstate in the 1860s." Douglas County News-Press, April 17, 1996.
Whiteley, Lee. "The Cherokee Trail: Bent's Old Fort to Fort Bridger." The Denver Westerners Roundup, May-June 1996. p. 2-24.
Whiteley, Lee "The Trapper's Trail: The Road to Fort Laramie's Back Door," Overland Journal 16, no. 4:2-15.
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