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Illustration Credits
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Library of Congress.
1.1b Library of Congress.
1.1c Library of Congress.
1.1d Library of Congress.
1.1e Library of Congress.
1.1f Library of Congress.
1.1g Library of Congress.
1.1h Library of Congress.
1.1i Library of Congress.
1.1j Library of Congress.
1.1k Library of Congress.
1.1l Library of Congress.
1.1m Library of Congress.
1.1n Library of Congress.
1.1o Library of Congress.
1.1p Library of Congress.
1.1q Library of Congress.
1.2 Library of Congress.
1.3 Courtesy of the James K. Polk Memorial Association.
1.4 State Historical Society of Missouri.
1.5 Courtesy of University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections.
1.6a From Henry Inman, The Old Santa Fe Trail (London: Macmillan and Co., 1897).
1.6b From Henry Inman, The Old Santa Fe Trail (London: Macmillan and Co., 1897).
1.6c From Henry Inman, The Old Santa Fe Trail (London: Macmillan and Co., 1897).
1.7a From Henry Inman, The Old Santa Fe Trail (London: Macmillan and Co., 1897).
1.7b From Henry Inman, The Old Santa Fe Trail (London: Macmillan and Co., 1897).
1.7c From Henry Inman, The Old Santa Fe Trail (London: Macmillan and Co., 1897).
1.8 From John C. Frémont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clark & Co., 1886).
1.9 From John C. Frémont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clark & Co., 1886).
2.1 2.2 2.3 Missouri History Museum, St. Louis.
2.4 Missouri History Museum, St. Louis.
2.5 W. H. Emory, Notes of a Military Reconnoissance [sic] from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers (Washington: Wendell & Van Benthuysen, 1848).
2.6 National Archives and Records Administration.
2.7 Courtesy of Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
2.8 Courtesy of Palace of the Governors, New Mexico, MNM/DCA Neg. 70437.
2.9 Courtesy of Benson Collection, University of Texas, Austin.
3.1 Courtesy Utah State Historical Society.
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