2.    Donaciano Vigil’s Address to the New Mexico Assembly on Arms, Munitions, Trade, North Americans, and “Barbaric” Indians, July 18, 1846, from David J. Weber, ed. and trans. Arms, Indians, and the Mismanagement of New Mexico: Donaciano Vigil, 1846.  El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1986, pp. 1-8. (6 pages pdf. file)

3.    Richard Henry Dana, Two Years before the Mast.  A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (New York: Harper & Bros., 1840), chap. 22. (6 pages pdf. file)

4.    James Ohio Pattie, The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky (Cincinnati: E. R. Flint, 1833). (19 pages pdf. file)

5.   Stella M. Drumm, ed., Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926), 95-149.

6.   Lewis H. Garrard, Wah-to-Yah, and the Taos Trail; or, Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Camp-fire (Cincinnati, H. W. Derby & Co.; New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1850), chaps. 12-17. (35 pages pdf. file)

7.   John Russell Bartlett, Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53.  2 vols. London: George Routledge and Co., 1854.  Preface (pp. i-xii), chapters 1 & 2 (pp. 1-45 vol. 1:-45), and part of chapter 37 (vol. 2:381-90)    (36 pages pdf. file)

8.    Bayard Taylor, Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel (2d ed. 2 vols. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1850), chaps. 9-11. (16 pages pdf. file)

9.    A. B. Clarke, Travels in Mexico and California: Comprising a Journal of a Tour from Brazos Santiago, through Central Mexico, by way of Monter[r]ey, Chihuahua, the Country of the Apaches, and the River Gila, to the Mining Districts of California (Boston, Wright & Hasty, 1852), pp. 106-38. (21 pages pdf. file)

10.    Virginia Reed Murphy, “Across the Plains in the Donner Party (1846).  A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trip to California,” Century Magazine, vol. 42 (July 1891), 409-426. (20 pages pdf. file)