LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN WEST: A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Richard W. Etulain

Professor Emeritus of History

University of New Mexico

This listing of books and essays about Abraham Lincoln and the trans-Mississippi West does not include the standard biographies and other notable books by such scholars as Albert Beveridge, J. G. Randall, David Donald, Allen Guelzo, and Doris Kearns Goodwin. Nor have I listed all the one-to-two page essays in Lincoln Lore and most popular journals. I have also omitted western territorial, state, and regional histories that do little more than mention Lincoln in passing. But all substantial accounts of Lincoln's connections with the American West are listed here.

BOOKS

"Abraham Lincoln." The Palimpsest 41 (February 1960): 81-144. Special theme issue on Lincoln and Iowa.

Ayres, Carol Dark. Lincoln and Kansas: Partnership for Freedom. Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 2001.

Berry, Conrad C., III. "Arkansas and Abraham Lincoln: Wartime Reconstruction and the President's Plan for the State." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1992.

Berwanger, Eugene H. The Frontier Against Slavery. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1967.

Bigglestone, William. "Lincoln and the Northern California Press, 1860-1865." Master's thesis, Stanford University, 1951.

Blair, Harry C. Dr. Anson Henry: Physician, Politician, Friend of Abraham Lincoln. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950.

Blair, Harry C., and Rebecca Tarshis. [i[Colonel Edward D. Baker: Lincoln’s Constant Ally. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1960.

Carman, Harry J., and Reinhard H. Luthin. Lincoln and the Patronage. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943.

Cox, Hank H. Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, 2005.

Curry, Leonard P. Blueprint for Modern America: Non-Military Legislation of the First Civil War Congress. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968

Emery, Richard L. Abraham Lincoln and the Latter-day Saints. Bloomington, IN: Author-House, 2005.

Findley, Paul. A. Lincoln: The Crucible of Congress. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.

Fischer, Leroy H. The Western Territories in the Civil War. Manhattan, KS: Journal of the West, 1977.

Hageman, Todd. "Lincoln and Oregon." Master's thesis, Eastern Illinois University.

Hazen, David Wheeler. Mr. Lincoln. Portland: University of Portland, 1941. Chapter 4 "Lincoln and Old Oregon."

Herriott, F. I. Herriott’s "Iowa": Iowa and Abraham Lincoln. Des Moines, IA, 1911.

Johannsen, Robert W. Frontier Politics and the Sectional Conflict: The Pacific Northwest on the Eve of the Civil War. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955.

Kellogg, Deren Earl. "The Lincoln Administration and the Southwestern Territories." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, 1998.

Limbaugh, Ronald H. Rocky Mountain Carpetbaggers: Idaho’s Territorial Governors, 1863-1890. Moscow: U of Idaho Press, 1982.

McGinnis, Ralph Y., and Calvin N. Smith, eds. Abraham Lincoln and the Western Territories. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1994.

Norby, Charles H. "The West in the Civil War Decade." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1935.

Nichols, David A. Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978.

Packard, Roy D. The Lincoln of the Thirtieth Congress. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1930.

Richardson, Heather Cox. The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Riddle, Donald W. Congressman Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1957.

Robertson, John Bruce. "Lincoln and Congress." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1966

Shutes, Milton H. Lincoln and California. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1943.

Starr, John William. Lincoln and the Railroads: A Biographical Study. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927.

Wiel, Samuel C. Lincoln's Crisis in the Far West. San Francisco: privately printed, 1949.

Essays

"Abraham Lincoln and Colorado." Denver [Chamber of Commerce] 18 (February 10, 1929): 8-9.

Alexander, Gerry L. "Abe Lincoln and the Pacific Northwest." Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 16 (Winter 2002-03): 3-6.

Angle, Paul. "Lincoln’s Land Holdings and Investments." Abraham Lincoln Association Bulletin 16 (September 1929).

Ascher, Leonard W. "Lincoln’s Administration and the New Almaden Scandal." Pacific Historical Review 5 (March 1936): 38-51.

Barker, Malcolm E. "When Sam Brannan Stumped for Abraham Lincoln." California and the Civil War, 1861-1865. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1992.

Barr, John M. "If Lincoln Had Lived: Texans Reconsider Lincoln's Assassination." Lincoln Herald 91 (winter 1989): 151-55.

Barr, John M. "The Tyrannicide's Reception: Responses in Texas to Lincoln's Assassination." Lincoln Herald 91 (summer 1989): 58-64.

Bell, Samuel E., and James M. Smallwood. "The Pragmatic Lincoln: A Historiographical Assessment of His Western Policy." Lincoln Herald 86 (fall 1984): 134-42.

Boritt, G. S. "A Question of Political Suicide? Lincoln’s Opposition to the Mexican War." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 67 (February 1974): 79-100.

Braden, Waldo W. "Lincoln's Western Travel, 1859." Lincoln Herald 90 (summer 1988): 38-43

Brinkerhoff, Fred W. "Address of the President: The Kansas Tour of Lincoln the Candidate." Kansas Historical Quarterly 13 (February 1945): 294-307.

Buck, Solon J. "Lincoln and Minnesota." Minnesota History 6 (December 1925): 355-61.

Bullard, F. Lauriston. "Abraham Lincoln and the Statehood of Nevada." American Bar Association Journal 26 (March 1940): 210-13, 236; 26 (April 1940): 313-17.

Carter, John Denton. "Abraham Lincoln and the California Patronage." American Historical Review 48 (April 1943): 495-506.

Chandler, Robert J. "Crushing Dissent: The Pacific Coast Tests Lincoln's Policy of Suppression, 1862." Civil War History 30 (September 1984): 235-54.

Chandler, Robert J. "The Release of the Chapman Pirates: A California Sidelight on Lincoln’s Amnesty Policy." Civil War History 23 (June 1977): 129-43.

Davis, Jane S. "Two Sioux War Orders: A Mystery Unraveled." Minnesota History 41 (fall 1968); 117-25.

Dickson, Edward A. "Lincoln and Baker: The Story of a Great Friendship." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 34 (September 1952): 229-42

Fenton, William D. "Edward Dickinson Baker." Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society 9 (1908): 1-23.

Floyd, Elbert F. "Insights into the Personal Friendship and Patronage of Abraham Lincoln and Anson Gordon Henry, M.D.: Letters from Dr. Henry to His Wife, Eliza." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 98 (winter 2005-6): 218-53.

Graham, Burdett. "A Lost Lincoln Letter: An Episode in the History of the First Iowa Cavalry." Annals of Iowa 33 (July 1955): 47-50.

Harbison, Winfred A. "President Lincoln and the Faribault Fire-eater." Minnesota History 29 (September 1939): 269-86.

Harlan, E. R. "Lincoln's Iowa Lands." Annals of Iowa 15 (April 1927): 621-23.

Hawley, Charles Arthur. "Lincoln in Kansas." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 42 (June 1949): 179-92.

Hazen, David Wheeler. "Lincoln and Old Oregon," Mr. Lincoln. Portland, OR: University of Portland, 1941, 54-67.

Herriott, Frank I. "Iowa and the First Nomination of Abraham Lincoln." Annals of Iowa 8 (1907); 81-115, 186-220, 444-66; 9 (April 1909): 45-64; (October 1909): 186-228.

Hoeflich, M. H., and Virgil W. Dean, eds. "'Went at night to hear Hon. Abe Lincoln make a Speech': Daniel Mulford Valentine's 1859 Diary." Kansas History 29 (summer 2006): 100-115.

Hofsommer, Donovan L. "William Palmer Doyle, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1861-1865." Lincoln Herald 75 (fall 1973): 97-114.

Hubbard, George U. "Abraham Lincoln as Seen by the Mormons." Utah Historical Quarterly 31 (spring 1963): 91-108.

Johannsen, Robert W. "The Tribe of Abraham: Lincoln and the Washington Territory," in David H. Stratton, ed. Washington Comes of Age: The State in the National Experience. Pullman: Washington State U Press, l992, 73-93.

Kellogg, Deren Earl. "Lincoln's New Mexico Patronage: Saving the Far West for the Union." New Mexico Historical Review 75 (October 2000): 511-33.

Kellogg, Deren Earl. "'SLAVERY MUST DIE': Radical Republicans and the Creation of the Arizona Territory." Journal of Arizona History 41 (autumn 2000): 267-88.

Kelsey, Harry. "Abraham Lincoln and American Indian Policy." Lincoln Herald 77 (fall 1975): 139-48.

Kelsey, Harry. "William P. Dole and Mr. Lincoln's Indian Policy." Journal of the West 10 (July 1971); 484-92.

King, Jeffrey S. "'Do Not Execute Chief Pocatello': President Lincoln Acts to Save the Shoshoni Chief." Utah Historical Quarterly 53 (summer 1985): 237-47.

King, Jeffery S. "A Memorable Spectacle: Lincoln's Meeting with Plains Indians on

March 27, 1863." Lincoln Herald 81 (spring 1979): 20-27.

Kubicek, Earl C. "Lincoln's Friend: Kirby Benedict." Lincoln Herald 81 (spring 1979): 9-20.

Leroy, David H. "Lincoln and Idaho: A Rocky Mountains Legacy," in Frank J. Williams, et al., eds. Abraham Lincoln: Sources and Style of Leadership. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994, 143-62.

"Lincoln in Kansas." Transactions of the Kansas Historical Society 7 (1901-1902): 536-45.

"Lincoln's Sioux War Order." Minnesota History 33 (summer 1952): 77-79.

Linkugel, Wil A. "Lincoln, Kansas, and Cooper Union." Speech Monographs 37 (August 1970): 172-79.

McFarland, Carl. "Abraham Lincoln and Montana Territory." Montana: The Magazine of Western History 5 (October 1955): 42-47.

McDonnell, Anne, ed. "Edgerton and Lincoln." Montana: The Magazine of Western History 1 (October 1950): 42-45.

Miller, Paul I., ed. "Lincoln and the Governorship of Oregon." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 23 (December 1936): 391-94.

Miner, Craig. "Lane and Lincoln: A Mysterious Connection." Kansas History 24 (autumn 2001): 186-99.

Moulton, Gary E. "John Ross and W. P. Dole: A Case Study of Lincoln's Indian Policy." Journal of the West 12 (July 1973): 414-23.

Murphy, William G. "Lincoln and the Union Pacific." Lincoln Herald 46 (June 1944): 40ff.

Neely, Mark E., Jr. "Lincoln and the Mexican War: An Argument by Analogy." Civil War History 24 (March 1978): 5-24.

[Neely, Mark E.] "President Lincoln, Polygamy, and the Civil War: The Case of Dawson and Deseret." Lincoln Lore 1644 (February 1975): 1-4; 1645 (March 1975): 1-4.

Nichols, David A. "Lincoln and the Indians," in Gabor S. Boritt and Norman O. Furness, eds. The Historian’s Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988, 149-69.

Nichols, David A. "The Other Civil War: Lincoln and the Indians." Minnesota History 44 (spring 1974): 2-15.

Owens, Patricia Ann. "Wyoming and Montana during the Lincoln Administration." Lincoln Herald 91 (summer 1989): 49-57.

Peterson, William J. "Lincoln and Iowa." The Palimpsest 41 (February 1960): 81-103.

Pomeroy, Earl S. "Lincoln, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Admission of Nevada." Pacific Historical Review 12 (December 1943): 362-68.

Pratt, Harry Edward. "Dr. Anson G. Henry, Lincoln's Physician and Friend." Lincoln Herald 45 (October 1943): 3-17; 45 (December 1943): 31-40.

Ray, Murray. "Iowa Remembers Lincoln." The Palimpsest 41 (February 1960): 122-29.

Ross, Earle D. "Lincoln and Agriculture." Agricultural History 3 (April 1929): 51-66.

Rutledge, William, III. "Lincoln's Last Message." True West 9 (March-April 1962): 11, 68-69.

Schmidt, Louis B. "Abraham Lincoln's New Deal for Agriculture." Arizoniana 3 (summer 1962): 9-16.

Schmidt, Louis B. "Abraham Lincoln's New Deal for Industrial Education." Arizoniana 3 (spring 1962): 10-15.

Schmidt, Louis B. "Abraham Lincoln’s New Deal for the Argonauts." Arizoniana 3 (winter 1962): 25-35.

Schmidt, Louis B. "Abraham Lincoln's New Deal for the Pioneer." Arizoniana 3 (fall 1962): 34-43.

Schweikart, Larry. "The Mormon Connection: Lincoln, the Saints, and the Crisis of Equality." Western Humanities Review 34 (winter 1980): 1-22.

Scott, Leslie M. "Oregon's Nomination of Lincoln." Oregon Historical Quarterly 17 (September 1916): 201-14.

Shiras, Frances. "Major Wolf and Abraham Lincoln: An Episode of the Civil War." Arkansas History 2 (1943): 353-58.

Shutes, Milton H. "Abraham Lincoln and the New Alamaden Mine." California Historical Society Quarterly 15 (March 1936): 3-20.

Shutes, Milton H. "Colonel E. D. Baker." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 17 (December 1938): 303-24.

Splitter, Henry Winfred. "Lincoln Rails in the California Presidential Campaign of 1860." Pacific Historical Review 19 (November 1950): 351-55.

Steen, Ralph W. "Texas Newspapers and Lincoln." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 51 (January 1948): 199-212.

Stevens, Walter B. "Lincoln and Missouri." Missouri Historical Review 10 (January 1916): 63-119

Taft, Robert A. "A Century of Kansas History: Abraham Lincoln in Kansas." Kansas Teacher 63 (No. 6, 1955).

Tegeder, Vincent G. "Lincoln and the Territorial Patronage: The Ascendancy of the Radicals in the West." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 35 (June 1948): 77-90.

Temple, Wayne C. "Dr. Anson G. Henry: Personal Physician to the Lincolns." Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, Historical Bulletin No. 43 (1988): 1-15.

"22 Letters of David Logan, Pioneer Oregon Lawyer." Ed. Harry E. Pratt. Oregon Historical Quarterly 44 (September 1943): 254-85.

Welch, Frank W. "Lincoln and American Higher Education." Lincoln Herald 75 (summer 1973): 65 ff.

Wells, Merle. "Idaho and the Civil War." Rendezvous 11 (fall l976): 9-26.

[Wells, Merle]. "Idaho's Centennial: How Idaho Was Created in 1863." Idaho Yesterdays 7 (spring 1963): 44-58.

Westwood, Howard C. "President Lincoln’s Overture to Sam Houston." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 88 (October 1984): 125-44.

Wood, Harry. "How Both Abraham Lincolns Helped Found Arizona." Lincoln Herald 78 (fall 1976): 109-16.

Wynne, Patricia Hochwalt. "Lincoln's Western Image in the 1860 Campaign." Maryland Historical Magazine 59 (June 1964): 165-81.

Zornow, William Frank. "The Kansas Senators and the Re-election of Lincoln." Kansas Historical Quarterly 19 (May 1951): 133-44.