Suggested Reading

Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1865-1869. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Benemann, William. A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Brown, Dee. The American West. New York: Macmillan Publishing Inc., 1995.

Chartier, JoAnn, and Chris Enss. With Great Hope: Women of the California Gold Rush. Helena, Mont.: Falcon Publishing, Inc., 2000.

Colbert, David, ed. Eyewitness to the American West: 500 Years of Firsthand History. New York: Viking Penguin, 1998.

Duncan, Dayton, and Ken Burns. Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Exploring the American West, 1803-1879. National Park Service Handbook 119. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1982.

Goetzmann, William H. The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.

Goetzmann, William H. Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978; Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1994.

Goetzmann, William H., and William N. Goetzmann. The West of the Imagination. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1986.

Hill, Mary. Gold: The California Story. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Hine, Robert V., and John Mack Faragher. American West: A New Interpretive History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000.

Koepp, Donna P. Exploring and Mapping of the American West. American Library Association Map and Geography Round Table. Chicago: Speculum Orbis Press, 1986.

Kowalewski, Michael, ed. Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books and the California Council for the Humanities, 1997.

Lamar, Howard R., ed. The New Encyclopedia of the American West. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.

Nobles, Gregory H. American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest. New York: Hill and Wang; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Noy, Gary, ed. Distant Horizon: Documents from the Nineteenth-century American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

Twain, Mark. Roughing It. 1872; many subsequent editions.

Viola, Herman J. Exploring the West. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1987.

Waldman, Carl. Atlas of the North American Indian. New York: Facts On File, 2000.

Wilford, John Noble. The Mapmakers. Rev. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Companion Volume
Heading West Touring West: Mapmakers, Performing Artists, and the American Frontier is the companion volume to the two complementary exhibitions on view at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Illustrated with 70 black-and-white and full-color images from the exhibitions, the 92-page book, published by The New York Public Library, is no longer in print.