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35. Mary Eliza a rner, "Diary" (1864), Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.
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36. Lucy Rutledge Cooke, Covered VVtl g on Days: Crossing the Plains in 1852
(Modesto, Calif.: Privately published, 1923), 22.
37. Millington, "Journal."
38. Andrews, "Diary."
39. W a rner, "Diary."
40. Katherine Dunlap, "Journal" (1864), Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.
41. Lucy Sexton, The Foster Family, California Pioneers (Santa Barbara, Calif.:
Press of the Schouer Printing Studio, 1925), 123.
42. Emily McCowen Horton, My Scrap-book (Seattle, Wash.: N.p., 1927), 17.
43. Mary Burrell, "Diary of a Journey Overland from Council Bluffs to Green
Valley, California, April 27 to September I , 1854," Beinecke Collection,
Y a le University Library, New Haven, Conn.
44. Pauline W o nderly, Reminiscences of a Pioneer (Placerville, Calif.: El Dorado
County Historical Society, 1965): 9.
45. John D. Unruh, Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans­
Mississip p i West, 1840-1860 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979), 156,
175-76.
46. Munkres, "Plains Indian Threat," 198-200.
47. Lavinia H. Porter, By Ox Team to California: A Narrative of Crossing the
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Plains in 1860 (Oakland, Calif.: Oakland Enquirer Publishing, 1910), 79-8 ,
95-96.
48. Fosdick, "Across the Plains."
49. Unruh, Plains Across, 135.
50. May Callan Tansill, "Narrative" (n.d.), Barker T e xas History Center,
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University of e xas, Austin.
5 1 . Abigail Raymond Smith to her brothers and sisters, 5 May 1840,Beinecke
Coliection,Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn.
52. In a study of 103 women's overland diaries Lillian Schlissel discovered
that only 7 percent recorded attacks by American Indians. Lillian Schlissel,
UiJmen � Diaries of the Westward Journey (New o rk: Schocken Books, 1982),
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154. Other scholars who have also argued that the Indian threat was vastly
exaggerated are Munkres, "Plains Indian Threat," 193-22 ; and Unruh,
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Plains Across, 9, 135-36, 156-200, 386, 395-96, 408-9.
53. Murphy, "Across the Plains," 409.
54. Margaret W Chambers, Reminiscences (N.p., 1903), 13.
55. Charlotte Stearns Pengra, "Diary" (1853), Huntington Library, San
Marino, Calif.
56. Porter, By Ox-Team to California, 65, 67, 69-70.
57. Jennings, interview 10025·
58. Williams, interview 6877.
59. Ella Bird-Dumont, "True Life Story ofElia Bird-Dumont, Earliest Settler

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