Description
Book SynopsisThis massive annotated bibliography of all known significant eyewitness accounts of nineteenth-century central overland travel fills a conspicuous gap in historical literature, and will greatly accelerate research, writing, and collecting. Platte River Road Narratives includes not only all identifiable overland accounts, but also a number of those identifiable in manuscript form only. Over 2,000 entries identify the author, the form of the passage, overland trip, and give Matte's authoritative commentary and evaluation, as well as identification of the repository of the source material.
Trade ReviewWinner of an Honorable Mention from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Association and a 1989 Western Heritage Award for Significant Scholarly Research and selected for the 1990 ALA "Best Bibliographies in History" list.
"The great value of this work is not the numerical size of the entries, but the fact that he has culled collections in a worthy effort to summarize once and for all the extent of our knowledge about these early travelers. He tells us where the writer of the material went and when and he ends each major entry with his personal assessment of the value of the material. Is it relevant? Is is accurate? Are the insights valuable? In short, is it worth the attention of the general researcher? I wish these summaries had been available when I was doing my work." --from the forward by James A. Michener
