Leslie's Magazine
Pictures: Richard Reinhardt "Out West on the Overland Trail"
American West Publ. Co., Palo Alto CA 1967
P. 47 View on the Platte Valley Plains, near Columbus NE, as
seen from the Union Pacific Railroad.
P. 48 The Schuyler Station; Departure of an eastward train.

Record 4 of 9
AUTHOR     Mattes, Merrill J.
TITLE the Great Platte River Road: the Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie.
PUBLISHER Lincoln, Nebraska: Historical Society, 1969.
DESCRIPT 583 p. ill.
SERIES Publications (Nebraska State Historical Society Series); no. 25.
NOTE Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nebraska State Publications Checklist 1972-1991 v. 13 0091-0406.
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
1 > Neb. Docs. H6000 T022 -1969 AVAILABLE

The Journal of Captain John R. Bell, Official Journalist for the Stephen H. Long
Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1820 ed. by Harlan M. Fuller, ed.
at law, Los Angeles Intro by Leroy R. and [...' Hafen BYU The Arthur H Clark Co., Glendale CA 1957.

p. 108 Friday, 9th June. A very heavy rain fell during the night, our arms,
blankets, and  many article in the packs were wet in the early part of the [morning]
we was much annoyed by immense swarms of musquietos. Proceeded at 8 a.m. after
 ascending the hill, the prairie is undulating the Indian trace no longer disc
ernible. Mr. Julian, Indian Front as guide at 1/2 past 1 oclock P.M.
we halted on the bank of the [...] to let our horses feed and
to open our packs and baggage to dry  weather it merely warm.
In the afternoon, we took a course to the left in order to cross a
dividing ridge of the prairie, and to arrive on the Loup Fork the river Platte...