Sources and Additional Reading Recommendations

  • Barile, Mary Collins. The Santa Fe Trail in Missouri (University of Missouri Press, 2010)
  • Burke, Diane Mutti. On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 (University of Georgia Press, 2010)
  • Carter, Harvey. Dear Old Kit: The Historical Christopher Carson (University of Oklahoma Press, 1968)
  • Chapman, Carl and Eleanor. Indians and Archaeology of Missouri (University of Missouri Press, 1983)
  • Crutchfield, James A. On the Santa Fe Trail (Twodot, 2019)
  • Dains, Mary K. Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies. 2 vols. (Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1993)
  • Dary, David. The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends and Lore (University Press of Kansas, 2000)
  • Denny, James M. The Western End of the Boonslick Road: Columbia to New Franklin to Arrow Rock Ferry (Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 4, Winter 2015-16)
  • Dickey, Michael. Arrow Rock: Crossroads of the Missouri Frontier (Friends of Arrow Rock, 2004)
  • Dickey, Michael. The People of the River’s Mouth: In Search of the Missouria Indians (University of Missouri Press, 2011)
  • Drumm, Stella M., Ed. Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin 1846-1847 (University of Nebraska Press, 1962)
  • Gilbert, Joan. The Trail of Tears across Missouri (University of Missouri Press, 1996)
  • Glasgow, Edward James and William Henry, ed. Mark L. Gardner. Brothers on the Santa Fe and Chihuahua Trails (University Press of Colorado, 1993)
  • Gleick, Harry S. Banking in Early Missouri: Part 1 (Missouri Historical Review, Vol LXI, Number 4, July 1967)
  • Goff, William A. Old Westport (Westport Historical Society, 1977)
  • Gregg, Josiah. Commerce of the Prairies (University of Oklahoma Press, 1954)
  • Jackson, Hal. Boone’s Lick Road: A Brief History and Guide to a Missouri Treasure (Trails Press, 2012)
  • Guild, Thelma. Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes (University of Nebraska Press. 1984)
  • Lay, William D. Indian Trade Factories and Forts in the Boonslick 1812-1815 (William Lay, 1994)
  • Martin, Gene and Mary. Trail Dust: A Quick Picture History of The Santa Fe Trail (Johnson Publishing, 1972)
  • Meyer, Marian. Mary Donoho: New First Lady of the Santa Fe Trail (Rio Grande Books, 2016)
  • Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson. Sweet Freedom’s Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails 1841-1869 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016)
  • O’Brien, William P. “Hiram Young: Black Entrepreneur on the Santa Fe Trail.” Best of Wagon Tracks, Vol 4, Nov 1989, Num 1
  • Pettigrew, Alversia. Memories of a Neck Child (Corporate Copy Print, Seventh Revised Printing, January 2019)
  • Quaife, Milo. Kit Carson’s Autobiography (University of Nebraska Press, 1966)
  • Rothwell, Dan. A. Along the Boone’s Lick Road: Missouri’s Contribution to Our First Transcontinental Route (Young at Heart Publishing, 1999)
  • Sabin, Edwin. Kit Carson Days: 1809-1868, Vol 1 (University of Nebraska Press, 1995)
  • Sapp, David P. The 1820 Route of the Boone’s Lick Trail Across Boone County, Missouri (David Sapp, 2000)
  • Simmons, Marc. Following the Santa Fe Trail: A Guide for Modern Travelers (Ancient City Press, 1986)
  • Smith, Jeffrey E., Editor. Seeking a Newer World: The Fort Osage Journals and Letters of George Sibley 1808-1811 (Lindenwood University Press, 2003)
  • Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade (Simon & Schuster, 1997)
  • Wolferman, Kristie. The Osage in Missouri (University of Missouri Press, 1997)

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