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305.567092 EQ64A
Equiano, Olaudah, b. 1745.
The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano / written by himself
305.567092 EQ64
Equiano, Olaudah, b. 1745.
The interesting narrative and other writings
323.1196073 P186
Newman, Richard
Pamphlets of protest: an anthology of early African-American protest literature, 1790-1860
818.403 D144
Dall, Caroline Wells Healey, 1822-1912;
Deese, Helen R. (EDT)
Daughter of Boston:
the extraordinary diary of a nineteenth-century woman
818.403 W319
Waterston, Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, 1812-1899
A woman's wit & whimsy : the 1833 diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy
917.8 L67J
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
The journals of Lewis and Clark
917.8042 L675J 2003
Meriwether Lewis, William
Clark, and members of the Corps of Discovery The Lewis and Clark journals : an American
epic of discovery : the abridgment of the definitive Nebraska edition
917.89 M21
Magoffin, Susan Shelby, 1827-1855
Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico
918.8042 L675D 1997
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
The journals of Lewis and Clark / edited by Bernard DeVoto
923.173 J45
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
923.173 J45A
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
The Thomas Jefferson papers
923.273 F83L
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / edited by Leonard W.Labaree and others
923.573 SH5
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman / by himself. Foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart
973.0496073 H52
Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883
Father Henson's story of his own life
973.0496073 N87
Northup, Solomon, b. 1808.
Twelve years a slave / Edited by Sue Eakin & Joseph Logsdon
973.21092 SM652T
Smith, John, 1580-1631.
The journals of Captain John Smith : a Jamestown biography / edited by John M. Thompson
973.3092 F831MC
Ben Franklin : America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times / Blaine McCormick
973.3092 F831Z
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin on Franklin / [edited by] Paul M. Zall
973.33 G8
edited by Robert C. Bray & Paul E. Bushnell
Diary of a common soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783: an annotated
edition of the military journal of Jeremiah Greenman
973.44092 AD214D
Adams, John, 1735-1826
The Portable John Adams
973.40922 SO696
Something that will surprise the world : the essential writings of the founding fathers / selected and edited with an introduction by Susan Dunn
973.46 F721
Berry, Trey
The forgotten expedition, 1804-1805
973.50922 L67
Lewis, Nelly Custis, 1779-1852.
George Washington's beautiful Nelly : the letters of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, 1794-1851 / edited by Patricia Brady
973.56 M414
Thayer, Crawford Beecher
Massacre at Bad Axe : an eye-witness account of the Black Hawk War of 1832
973.56092 B628
Black Hawk, Sauk chief, 1767-1838.
Black Hawk : an autobiography / edited by Donald Jackson
973.60924 B83
Brent, Linda, 1818-1896
Incidents in the life of a slave
973.62092 H645C
Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889.
A fighter from way back : the Mexican War diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th
Artillery, USA / edited by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. and Timothy D.
Johnson
973.7092 L73W
The eloquent president : a portrait of Lincoln through his words / Ronald C. White, Jr
973.71 SW97
Swint, Henry Lee
Dear ones at home; letters from contraband camps / Selected and edited by
Henry L. Swint. Letters written 1861-1870, chiefly by Lucy and Sarah Chase.
973.7115 P241
Parker, John P., 1827-1900
His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor
on the underground railroad / edited by Stuart Seely Sprague
973.714 G242C
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
William Lloyd Garrison and the fight against slavery : selections from The Liberator
/ edited with an introduction by William E. Cain.
973.73 SN671
Sneden, Robert Knox, b. 1832.
Eye of the storm : a Civil War odyssey / written and illustrated by Robert
Knox Sneden ; edited by Charles F. Bryan, Jr., and Nelson D. Lankford
973.7415G698
Gould, William Benjamin, 1837-1923
Diary of a contraband : the Civil War passage of a Black sailor / [edited
by] William B. Gould IV
973.7473092 W676
Wiley, William, 1838-1902
The Civil War diary of a common soldier : William Wiley of the 77th Illinois
Infantry
973.7477 P438
Genoways, Ted
A perfect picture of hell : eyewitness accounts by Civil War prisoners from
the 12th Iowa
973.781 F353
Ferguson, John Hill, 1829-1910
On to Atlanta : the Civil War diaries of John Hill Ferguson, Illinois Tenth
Regiment of Volunteers / edited by Janet Correll Ellison with assistance
from Mark A. Weitz
973.781 N564AM
Newton, James King, d. 1892
A Wisconsin boy in Dixie : Civil War letters of James K. Newton / edited
by Stephen E. Ambrose
973.782 C52
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886
Mary Chesnut's Civil War / edited by C. Vann Woodward
973.782 F615
Fletcher, William Andrew, b. 1839
Rebel private, front and rear : memoirs of a Confederate soldier
973.782 N361M
Neblett, Elizabeth Scott
A rebel wife in Texas : the diary and letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864
/ edited by Erika L. Murr
973.782 W89
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886
The private Mary Chesnut : the unpublished Civil War diaries / [edited by]
C. Vann Woodward, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld
973.8092 D737 1997
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by
himself
974.00497 AP641
Apes, William, b. 1798
On our own ground : the complete writings of William Apess, a Pequot
974.00497 AP641S
Apess, William, b. 1798
A son of the forest and other writings / by William Apess, a Pequot
974.008825 SE513
Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730
The diary and life of Samuel Sewall
974.02 W79
Winthrop, John, 1588-1649
Winthrop's journal : "History of New England", 1630-1649 / edited
by James Kendall Hosmer
974.4 B79
Bradford, William, 1588-1657
Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647. The complete text / with notes and an
introd. by Samuel Eliot Morison
974.6702092 H442
Heaton, Hannah, 1721-1793
The world of Hannah Heaton : the diary of an eighteenth-century New England
farm woman
975 V889
Gallay, Alan
Voices of the Old South : eyewitness accounts, 1528-1861 / edited by Alan
Gallay
975.502 SM65
Smith, John, 1580-1631
Captain John Smith's history of Virginia : a selection
975.503 J45
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Notes on the state of Virginia
974.7004973 J67
Johnson, Joseph, 1751?-1777
To do good to my Indian brethren : the writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-1776
976.205 W178
Walker, Elijah Millington, 1824-1868
A bachelor's life in antebellum Mississippi : the diary of Dr. Elijah Millington
Walker, 1849-1852
976.604092 D645K
Dodge, Richard Irving, 1827-1895
The Indian territory journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge / edited by
Wayne R. Kime.
977.02 K56
Kinzie, John H., Mrs., 1806-1870
Wau-Bun : the "early day" in the North-west / (originally published
1856)
977.16303092 B477
Bentley, Anna Briggs, 1796-1890
American grit : a woman's letters from the Ohio frontier
977.503 SM66
Smith, William Rudolph, 1787-1868
Observations on the Wisconsin Territory (c1838)
978.00497 OU93
Our hearts fell to the ground : Plains Indian views of how the West was lost
/ edited with an introduction by Colin G. Calloway
978.02 R239
Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 / by Weldon Willis Rau ; as told by Mary
Ann and Willis Boatman and augmented with accounts by other overland travelers
978.02 UN56
Johnson, Kristin, 1953-
Unfortunate emigrants : narratives of the Donner Party / edited by Kristin
Johnson
978.02092 M978
Murphy, Virginia Reed, b. 1834?
Across the plains in the Donner Party : a personal narrative of the overland
trip to California, 1846-47
978.033092 H796
Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca, 1844?-1891
Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims
978.202 Sa224
Sanford, Mollie Dorsey 1838 or 9-1915
Mollie
: the journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado territories,
1857-1866
978.85602 OV96
Hafen, Le Roy Reuben, 1893-
To
the Pike's Peak Gold Fields, 1859 (Overland routes to the gold fields, 1859)
979.404 D337
Delano, Alonzo
On the trail to the California gold rush (1854)
bibliography by Donna Marconnet
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