EARLY EXPLORERS, 1803-1812

John Sibley, 1803, A letter from Louisiana

Thomas Jefferson and Moses Austin, 1804, Message, 8 November

William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, 1806, Letter, 23 September

Thomas Jefferson, 1806, Message, 2 December [Dunbar-Hunter, Freeman-Custis, Pike]

William H. Thomas, 1809, Voyage to the Mandan village

George C. Sibley, 1812, Tour to the Indian country

FUR HUNTERS, 1813-1847

Robert Stuart and Wilson P. Hunt, 1813, American enterprize

Anonymous [Ashley-Ricaree fight], 1823, Ft. Kiowa Letter

Thomas H. Benton, 1824, Yellow Stone post, treaties

James Hall, 1825, Letters from the West [Hugh Glass]

Henry Atkinson, 1826, Expedition up the Missouri

Francis Baylies, 1826, Northwest coast [Ruddock's fiction]

Daniel T. Potts, 1826-27, Letters from the Rocky Mountains

Jedediah S. Smith, 1827, Country S.W. of Great Salt Lake

Thomas H. Benton, 1829, Condition of fur trade [Ashley and Campbell]

James S. Craig, 1831, Bean expedition

Robert Isaacs, 1832, Perils of a mountain hunt

Philip L. Edwards, 1834, Nathaniel J. Wyeth's second expedition

Elbert Herring, 1835, Licenses to trade with Indians

Robert Campbell, 1836, Letters from the Rockies

William M. Anderson, 1837, Adventures in the Rocky Mountains

David L. Brown, 1845, Three years in the Rocky Mountains

Jacob Thompson, 1845, Bent, St. Vrain, & Co

James Kirker, 1847, Don Santiago Kirker, Indian fighter