Some of these books may have been reprinted since I read them. Most any out-of-print book can be obtained through inter-library loan programs. All except the Brown and Dye books were taken from my working bibliography.


Barry, Louise. The Beginning of the West: Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West 1540-1854. Topeka, KS: Kansas State History Society, 1972.

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. (This book takes up almost exactly where Isaac McCoy’s story ends.)

Buley, R. Carlyle. The Old Northwest - 2 vols. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 1950.

Drake, Benjamin. The Life of Tecumseh and His Brother the Prophet. Cincinnati, OH: E. Morgan & Co., 1850.

Dye, Kitty. Maconaquah’s Story: The Saga of Frances Slocum. 2000. Also Dye’s Meet George Winter: Pioneer Artist, Journalist, Entrepreneur. 2001. Both Port Clinton, OH: LeClere Publishing Co. www.leclerepublishing.com

Esarey, Logan, editor. Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison. 2 vols. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Collections, 1922. Also Esarey’s History of Indiana from its Exploration to 1922. 3 vols. Dayton, OH: 1923.

Griswold, Bert Joseph. The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne Indiana. Chicago, IL: Robert O. Law Co. 1917.

Hall, Baynard Rush. The New Purchase or Seven and a Half Years in the Far West. 2 vols. New York City, NY & Philadelphia, PA: Appelton, 1843. Reprint by Arno Press, 1975.

Hoxie, Frederick E., editor. Indians in American History. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc, 1988.

Hunt, Gaillard, editor. The First Forty Years of Washington Society in the Family Letters of Margaret Bayard Smith, 1778-1844. New York City, NY: Frederic Ungar Pub. Co., 1906.

Hurd, Charles. The White House Story. New York City, NY: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1966.

James, Marquis. The Life of Andrew Jackson. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1938.

Kayser, Elmer Louis. Bricks Without Straw: The Evolution of George Washington University. New York, NY: Appleton-Centu-ry-Crofts, 1970.

Kvasnicka, Robert M. and Herman J. Viola, editors. The Commissioners of Indian Affairs. 1824-1977. University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

Latrobe, Chas. Joseph. The Rambler in North America, 1832-1833. 2 vols. London, Eng.: R.B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1835.

McCoy, Isaac. History of Baptist Indian Missions. Washington, DC: Wm. M. Morrison, 1840. Reprint, Springfield, MO: Particular Baptist Press, 2003. www.pbpress.org

McDermott, John Francis, editor. The Western Journals of Washington Irving. Norman, OK: U of OK Press, 1944.

McKee, Irving. The Trail of Death: Letters of Benjamin Marie Petit. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 1941.

McKenney, Thomas L. Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes. 1827.

McKenney, Thomas L. & James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America - 3 v. Philadelphia, PA: 1836-44.

Meyer, Leland Winfield. The Life and Times of Colonel R. M. Johnson of Kentucky. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1932.

Nabokov, Peter and Robert Easton. Native American Architecture. New York City, NY: Oxford U. Press, 1989.

Robertson, Nellie A., and Dorothy Riker, editors. John Tipton Papers, 3 vols. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Commission, 1942.

Walton, George. Sentinel of the Plains: Fort Leavenworth and the American West. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1973.

Western Writers of America. Water Trails West. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1978.

Winger, Otho. The Potawatomi Indians. Elgin, IL: Elgin Press, 1939.

Winter, George. The Journals and Indian Paintings of George Winter, 1837-1839. 1st Edition. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 1948.