History 4110    Summer 2005    Selected Writings

Mary Autsin (1868-1934), Land of Little Rain, 1903

Comments from Literary History of the American West

William Cody (1845-1917),  Autobiography, 1917

(1839-1902), short stories about California mning camps: The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, The Idyl of Red Gulch

Nat Love (1854- 1921) The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" , 1917

Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-6

Osborne Russell (1814-1892, Journal of a trapper, 1917 (based on his journeys in the 1840s)

Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933), Letters of a Woman Homesteader, 1917

Mark Twain (1835-1910), Roughing It, 1872

Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony (Shell flower)) (1844-1891) Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, 1883

(1860-1938), Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains, 1904