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This website is a collection of the DRAFT data collected for the 2011 nomination of 6 high potential route segments of the Old Spanish National Historical Trail in a contract administered by the Old Spanish Trail Association on behalf of the NPS, BLM, and USFS. SHPOs and THPOs in 6 states, as well as over 100 volunteers and stakeholders participated in this project, which included historical, ethnographic, geographic, and field research conducted by Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz. The drafts were written by Mark Henderson and edited by Rachel Prinz. This data will be submitted to the National Register once OSTA's consultant (not us) completes the MPDF. We are providing this data as a service to the OSTA membership, to the various stakeholders, and on behalf of the American people... to whom this amazing trail belongs.
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NV - Mormon Mesa: Major Bibliographical References

Auerbach, Herbert S.

            1941                 Old Trails, Old Forts, Old Trappers and Traders. Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 9, Numbers 1 & 2, pages 13- 63.

Baxter, John O.

            1987                 Los Carneradas: Sheep Trade in New Mexico 1700-1860.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.


Brewerton, George Douglas
            1993                 Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in ’48. Introduction by Marc
                                    Simmons. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Brooks, George R., editor
            1977                 The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith: His Personal Account of the Journey to California, 1826-1827.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Frémont, John C.
            1845 [1988]       Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-1844. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, Reprint with an Introduction by Herman J. Viola and Ralph Ehrenberg.



Hafen, L. R., & Hafen, A. W.
            1993                 Old Spanish Trail: Santa Fe to Los Angeles (Reprint of 1954 Edition ed.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. [Original published by A. H. Clark Co. Glendale, California in series The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series 1820-1875].

Hafen, LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen
            1998                 Journals of Forty-Niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. [Original published by A. H. Clark Co. Glendale, California in series The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series 1820-1875].

Heap, Gwinn Harris
            1854                 Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E. F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853.  Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co.[Nabu Public Domain Reprints].

Hill, Joseph J.
            1921                 The Old Spanish Trail: A Study of Spanish and Mexican Trade and Exploration Northwest from New Mexico to the Great Basin and California.  The Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 4, No. 3:444-473.

Jackson, Donald and Mary Lee Spence, editors
            1970                 The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont. Volume 1: Travels from 1838-1844. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Knack, Martha C.
            2001                 Boundaries Between: The Southern Paiutes, 1775-1995. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Longwell, C.R., E. H. Pampeyan, Ben Bowyer and R. J. Roberts
            1965                 Geology and Mineral Deposits of Clark County, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
                                    Bulletin 62. Reno: Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada.

Lyman, Edward Leo
            2004                 The Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels. Reno: University of Nevada Press.

Lyman, Leo and Larry Reese
            2001                 The Arduous Road: Salt Lake to Los Angeles, The Most Difficult Wagon Road in American History.  Victorville: Lyman Historical Research and Publishing Company.

Lyneis, Margaret M.
            1992                 The Main Ridge Community at Lost City: Virgin Anasazi Architecture, Ceramics, and Burials. Anthropological Papers 117. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Marcy, Randolph B.
            1859                 The Prarie Traveler: A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions. New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers.

McBride, Terri and Stanton D. Rolf
            2001                 Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road Historic District. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Reference Number 01000863. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/01000863.pdf

Myhrer, Keith, William G. White and Stanton D. Rolf
            1990                 Archaeology of the Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road From Las Vegas, Nevada to the California Border. Contributions to the Study of Cultural Resources Technical Report 17. Reno: Bureau of Land Management.

NatureServe
            2011                 NatureServe Explorer: An Online Encyclopedia of Life. World Wide Web Publication accessed 26 June 2011 at http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet.

Rhode, David
            2002                 Native Plants of Southern Nevada: An Ethnobotany. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press.

Steiner, Harold Austin
            1999                 The Old Spanish Trail Across the Mojave Desert. Las Vegas: The Haldor Company.

Sullivan, Maurice S.
            1934 [1992]       The Travels of Jedediah Smith: A Documentary Outline, Including his Journal. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Thornbury. William D.
            1965                 Regional Geomorphology of the United States. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

USDI Bureau of Land Management
            1998                 Proposed Las Vegas Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement. Las Vegas: Bureau of Land Management.

USDI Geological Survey
            2011                 Gap Analysis Program (GAP) Land Cover Viewer. www publication accessed 26 June 2011 http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/landcoverviewer.html

US Environmental Protection Agency
            2011                 Ecoregions of the United States. Digital publication access 27 May 2011
                                    http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/ecoregions/na_eco.htm

Wheat, Carl I.
            1957 [2004]       Mapping the Transmissippi West: 1540-1861. San Francisco: The Institute of Historical
                                    Cartography [Reprint Edition Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, CT].

Young, James A. and Charlie D. Clements
            2009                 Cheatgrass: Fire and Forage on the Range. Reno: University of Nevada Press.