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223-24, and John S. Wright, Letters from the vvest; or, a Caution to Emigrants
(Ann Arbor, Mich.: University MicrofIlms, 1966), 29.
73. Potter, Trail to California, 127.
74· Parker,Journal of an Exploring T o ur, 5 3 .
7 5 . Potter, "Missouri River Journal," 276.
76. Barry, "Charles Robinson," 34.
77· Parker, Journal of an Exploring Tour, 35·
78. Bryant, What I Saw in California, 154; and Kiefer, "Over Barren Plains."
79. Clark, Gold Rush Diary, 184.
80. Caspar Collins to His Mother, 20 September 1 8 62, Collins Letters; Coy,
Great Trek, I26-27; Bryant, What I Saw in California, 52-53; and Harold F.
Taggart, ed., "The Journal of David Jackson Staples," California Historical
Society Quarterly 22 (June 1943): II9-47.
8 1 . Harlan, "Journal," 57.
82. Lafayette Spencer, 'Journal of the Oregon r ail," Annals of Iowa 8 (January
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1908): 304-lO; Mattes and Kirk, "From Ohio to California," 437-68;
Parker, "Notes and Documents," 309-30; Wistar, Autobiography, 50, 67,
80-- 1 , lOI, 219, 221; and M. M. Hoffman, "The First Gazetteer on Iowa,"
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Annals of Iowa 17 (July I932): 383-90.
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83. Page, VVclgons vvest, I28, 165-66 2 37.
84· Ingalls ,Journal of a Trip, 50; Giffen, Diaries of Peter Decker, 131; and Quaife,
Across the Plains, II9-24.
85. Wistar, Autobiography, 67; Clark, Gold Rush Diary, 22, 25;Jacob H. Schiel,
Journey through the Rocky Mountains and the Humboldt Mountains to the Pacific
Ocean (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959), 18-19; W W
Chapman, "W W Chapman's Diary," W y oming State Historian Quarterly
Bulletin I (15 September 1923): 9;Wyman, California Emigrant Letters, 103.
86. Thwaite, Early vvestern Travels, I52-53; Sargent, Seeking the Elephant, 125;
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and Holzhueter, "From a upun to Sacramento," 229.
87. Delano, Life on the Plains, 145.
88. Stansbury, Expedition, 254-57.
89. Quaife, Across the Plains, 88-89.
90. Although most of the male sources examined showed evidence of little
or no change in attitudes toward Indians, especially good examples are
Elisha Brooks, A Pioneer Mother of California (San Francisco: Harr W a gner
Publishing, 1922); James Enos, "Recollections" (ca. 1 8 92), Newberry
Library, Chicago, Ill.; Gray, "Diary"; Marcy, Thirty Years; Stansbury,
Expedition; and Quaife, Across the Plains. See McKinstry, California Gold
Rush Overland Diary, 92--94, 96-101, f o r a male emigrant who realized that
the men's adversary stance was f r e quently unnecessary and even humor­
ous. For a discussion of white Americans' views of American Indians
during the nineteenth century, see Alden T. V a ughan, "From White Man

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