Books about Overland journeys to the Pacific (sorted alphabetically)
- Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 Joel Palmer
- Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Randolph B. Marcy
- Recollections of a Pioneer J. W. Gibson
- Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska Merrill J. Mattes
- trip to California in 1853 : Recollections of a gold seeking trip by ox train across the plains and mountains by an old Illinois pioneer Washington Bailey
- West from a car window Richard Harding Davis
- What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant
- Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey, 1832; and Townsend's Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, 1834 John Kirk Townsend and John B. Wyeth