Table of Contents:
  • Coming of the white man / William P. Burns
  • Western lines / Walt Whitman
  • Bison track / Bayard Taylor
  • Prairies / William Cullen Bryant
  • I hear the tread of pioneers / John Greenleaf Whittier
  • The pioneer / James Russell Lowell
  • The movers / William Dean Howells
  • Route of the emigrant wagons / Henry W. Longfellow
  • Crossing the plains / Belle W. Cooke
  • Pioneer of fifty-three / Mrs. S. Watson Hamilton
  • Emigrant remembers / T.J. Kirk
  • The Oregon Trail / Joseph W. Dorr
  • Oliver Wiggins / Stanley Vestal
  • Lone Elm Camp Ground / Kansas Historical Collections
  • Oregon Trail (1843) / Arthur Guiterman
  • Along Indian trails / S.N.M. Byers
  • Oregon Trail: 1851 / James Marshall
  • Across the wide plains / W.T. Rigdon
  • Exodus for Oregon / Joaquin Miller
  • The wagon in front / Florence Knight Nitschke
  • The pioneer ox / Sam L. Simpson
  • Road to Oregon / Mrs. Elizabeth Markham
  • The crossing / John C. Almack
  • Through Naches Pass / Cornelius Rogers
  • The handcart Expedition / Palimpsest
  • West of Casper, Wyoming / Alan Swallow
  • Upper California, O! / John Taylor
  • Exploring / Thales H. Haskell
  • Western wagons / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet
  • Ho, for California-O! / Old song
  • Pike County chorus / John Phoenix
  • From earth's four quarters / M.V.
  • Men of forty-nine / Joaquin Miller
  • Forty-niner in the desert / Benj. F. Taylor
  • Beans / Robert Patterson
  • Yellow fever / O.P.Q.
  • Westward / Velma Caldwell Melville
  • My New Year's guests / R.M. Daggett
  • Ballad of the forty-niner / Old song
  • San Francisco-1853 / California songster, 1855
  • Buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay
  • The wagon train / Sam L. Simpson
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada / Frances Fuller victor
  • Thirsty ox-teams / Mrs. S. Watson Hamilton
  • Sultry travel / James Oppenheim
  • Sagebrush / Bert Huffman
  • Tumble weeds / Dell Gronnert
  • Arid lands / Herbert Bashford
  • Nebraska City-Fort Kearney Trail, 1858-1870 / A.E.S.
  • Babies of the pioneers / Eunice W. Luckey
  • Old rifle / Ben Hur Lampman
  • William Brown / Joaquin Miller
  • To the far frontier / S.A. Clarke
  • Song of the first settlers / Howard McKinley Corning
  • Plow in the load / Donald Burnie
  • Hudson's Bay lost to them / Donald Burnie
  • Prayer and song / Joaquin Miller
  • Let me too / Mary Carolyn Davies
  • Linchpin wagon / Carson Masiker
  • Old camp ground / J.H. Cradlebaugh
  • West and west / Abigail Scott Duniway
  • Old emigrant road / Carrie Blake Morgan
  • Lords of themselves / Frances Fuller Victor
  • Wagon trails / Mrs. Pauline Henderson
  • Vanished trail / O.C. Applegate
  • Land where dreams come true / J.H. Cradlebaugh
  • Haunted road to the west / Glenn Wood Dresbach
  • At Fort Laramie twenty years after / Abigail Scott Duniway
  • Long road he blazed / Claude Thayer
  • Pioneers / Badger Clark
  • Abandoned Conestoga / Verne Bright.