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Emigrants on the Overland Trail : the wagon trains of 1848
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ISBN: 1612480217 9781612480213 9781935503958 1935503952 Year: 2011 Publisher: Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press,

Shorty's yarns : western stories and poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
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ISBN: 0874215803 9786613283443 1283283441 0874215293 9780874215298 087421579X 9780874215793 9780874215809 0874214971 9780874214970 Year: 2004 Publisher: Utah State University, University Libraries

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Set in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, the stories are a loosely tied string of old timer's yarns with a continuing cast of engaging characters, whom Kiskaddon avoids reducing to cowboy stereotypes. They include, as Siems describes them, ""Kiskaddon himself as the character Shorty. As a common waddy with a small man's feistiness and a young man's mischief, Shorty encounters the wicked world with a succession of companions: Bill, high-headed and a bit of an outlaw; Rildy Briggs, untamable and unstoppable young cowgirl; and Ike, an old-fashioned dandy and 'a very fortunate person.' More

Shoshonean Peoples and the Overland Trail : Frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849–1869
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ISBN: 0874216516 9786613283535 0874216672 1283283530 9780874216677 9780874216516 9781283283533 6613283533 Year: 2007 Publisher: Utah State University, University Libraries

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This compilation of Dale Morgan's historical work on Indians in the Intermountain West focuses primarily on the Shoshone who lived near the Oregon and California trails. Three connected works by Morgan are included: First is his classic article on the history of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs. This is followed by a previously unpublished history of early relations among the Western Shoshoni, emigrants, and the government along the California Trail. The book concludes with an important set of government reports and correspondence from the National Archives concerning the Eastern Shoshone and their leader Washakie. Morgan heavily annotated these for serial publication in the Annals of Wyoming. He also wrote a previously unpublished history of early relations among the Western Shoshone, emigrants, and the government along the California Trail. Morgan biographer Richard L. Saunders introduces, edits, and further annotates this collection. His introduction includes an intellectual biography of Morgan that focuses on the place of the anthologized pieces in Morgan's corpus. Gregory E. Smoak, a leading historian of the Shoshone, contributes an ethnohistorical essay as additional context for Morgan's work.

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