Palmer, Joel. Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains to the mouth of the Columbia River.
James. 1847. p. 55, 57-58, 123-132,
A valuable source. Appendix con H. Spalding to Joel Palmer, dated A was written at Mr. Palmer's reques was apparently given to Dr. Whitm contains four notes signed "M. W." and the Oregon country. This rare volume has been reprint Early western' travels, v. 30. The W
p. 108, 112-114, 227-242, and 281-291.
Parker, Samuel. Journal of an explori Mountains under the direction of t 36-37. Ithaca. Published by the author. 1838. One of the important sources for the founding of the Oregon Missions of the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions. Parker finds Whitman at St. Louis
and they travel together to the Green River, where Whitman turns back to secure associates. Greenhow criticised Parker
for his discursiveness, saying that his narrative "would have
been more valuable had the worthy and intelligent author confined himself to accounts of what he himself experienced, and
not wandered as he has done, into the regions of history, diplomacy, and cosmogony." (Greenhow, Oregon and California, p. 361).
Parrish, Randall. The great plains. Chic. McClurg. 1907.
Asserts that the object of Whitman's ride was to bear to
Wasington the news of British encroachment on the Columbia, p. 143.
Roberts, William P. "The wheels of destiny." n. p. Beacon Ethical Union. C1901. p. 9-13. A pro-Whitman pamphlet.
Robertson, James Rood. Development of civil government in Oregon. Forest Grove (Ore.). Thompson. 1899. p. 29-31. A careful statement of Whitman's political influence. Same article contained in the Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, v. 1, no. 1 (March, 1900), see p. 41-44. Rollins, Alice Wellington. Whitman's ride, by a lady of Brooklyn (name unknown). 8p. Prtland. Baumgardt and Palmer, n. d.
In imitation of the ride of Paul Revere. The saved Oregon story.
This poem is contained also in Nixon's How Marcus Whitman saved Oregon, p. 180-185, and Craighead's Story of Marcus Whitman, p. 205-211. It is said to have made its first appearance in the New York Independent for March
19, 1885.
