Editing Oregon Trail (section)

===Primary sources===
* {{Cite book |last=Crawford |first=Medorem |author-link=Medorem Crawford |url=https://www2.sos.wa.gov/legacy/images/publications/sl_crawfordjournal/sl_crawfordjournal.pdf |title=Journal of Medorem Crawford: an account of his trip across the plains with the Oregon pioneers of 1842 |publisher=Star Job Office |year=1897 |oclc=5001642}}
* {{Cite book |last=Hewitt |first=Randall |url=https://www2.sos.wa.gov/legacy/images/publications/sl_hewittnotes/sl_hewittnotes.pdf |title=Notes by the way: memoranda of a journey across the plains, from Dundee, Ill., to Olympia, W. T. May 7, to November 3, 1862 |publisher=Washington Standard |year=1863 |oclc=51465106}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/hoforcalifornia00sour |title=Ho for California! women's overland diaries from the Huntington Library |date=1980 |publisher=Hungtington Library |isbn=978-0-87328-103-4 |editor-last=Myres |editor-first=Sandra L. |editor-link=Sandra Myres |location=San Marino, Cal |url-access=registration}}
* {{Cite book |last=Parkman |first=Francis |author-link=Francis Parkman |title=The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life |title-link=The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life |publisher=[[G.P. Putnam's]] |year=1849 |location=New York |oclc=657133303}}, personal account by a famous historian
* {{Cite book |last=Smedley |first=William |url=https://www2.sos.wa.gov/legacy/images/publications/sl_smedleyacross1862/sl_smedleyacross1862.pdf |title=Across the Plains in '62 |publisher=[publisher not identified] |year=1916 |publication-place=Denver |oclc=4981167}}
* {{Cite book |last=Ward |first=D. B. |url=https://www2.sos.wa.gov/legacy/images/publications/sl_wardacross1853/sl_wardacross1853.pdf |title=Across the Plains in 1853 |publisher=Ward |others=Preface by [[Edmond S. Meany]] |year=1911 |location=Seattle |oclc=466904274}}
* {{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Joseph |url=https://www2.sos.wa.gov/legacy/images/publications/sl_williamstour/sl_williamstour.pdf |title=Narrative of a Tour from the State of Indiana to the Oregon Territory in the Years 1841–2 |publisher=E. Eberstadt |others=Introduction by James C. Bell, Jr. |year=1921 |location=New York |oclc=2095243}}