Bell--Bell, Stella Jaques. Life History and Writings of John Jaques: Including a Diary of the Martin Handcart Company. Rexburg, ID: Ricks College Press, 1978. Excerpts are available on Saints by Sea database and Pioneer Database.

Beecroft--Beecroft, Joseph, Journal, CHL, MS 1915. Excerpts are available on Saints by Sea database and Pioneer Database.

Burton--Burton, Robert T., [Journal] in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 30 November 1856. This is the camp journal of the Grant rescue party kept by Robert T. Burton.

CHL--Church History Library.

Deseret News--Scanned copies of the Deseret News for 1856 are available online at Digital Collections, BYU Library, https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/desnews1/id/3210.

Hafen and Hafen--Hafen, Leroy R., and Ann W. Hafen. Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856–1860. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1960.

Haven--Haven, Jesse, Journals, 1851–1892, CHL, MS 890. https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/record?id=ad8ab6ae-e172-4510-8f51-7d9643dfdf69&view=browse.

Holograph--Pay, Mary Goble, Autobiography, copy in possession of author. This is Mary’s handwritten memoir.

Hunt Journal--Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 December 1856, 7–37, CHL, CR 100 37. This entry contains a transcription of the original camp journal of the Jones/Hunt company. https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=c875ccf4-42e8-4336-a4a1-608a0e61f880&crate=0&index=322. Another transcription is filed as “Dan Jones Emigrating Company journal,” CHL, MS 9395. https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=99aa03d3-fd60-461a-a953-841ac9b63291&crate=0&index=1. The original handwritten journal is also in the CHL: “Dan Jones Emigrating Company. Dan Jones Emigration Company journal,” MS 1066. https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=d81a6c8c-1aad-4231-a121-4242c5cd7df4&crate=0&index=2 .

Jones--Jones, Daniel W., Forty Years Among the Indians. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1890.

Journal History--Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, CHL, CR 100 37. The Journal History is essentially a scrapbook containing a variety of documents and entries in chronological order.

Millennial Star--The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star was an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England from 1840 to 1970. From April 1842 to 3 March 1932 it was printed in Liverpool. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/search/collection/MStar.

Olsen--Olsen, Andrew D., The Price We Paid: The Extraordinary Story of the Willie & Martin Handcart Pioneers. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006.

Openshaw--Openshaw, Samuel, Diary, CHL, MS 1515.

Petrit--Petrit, Sandra Ailey, ed. Recollections of Past Days: Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1036&context=usupress_pubs.

Pioneer Database--Previously known as the “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database,” this database, maintained by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lists all known pioneers who came to Utah before the advent of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. It includes pioneer companies and excerpts from relevant records and documents. https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/.

Saints by Sea--Saints by Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America (database maintained by Brigham Young University in collaboration with the Church History and Family History Departments). This database contains names of pioneers whose travel to Utah included travel by ship, together with relevant records and documents. It includes emigrants through 1932. It is available at https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu.

Southwell--Southwell, John William, Autobiography. CHL, MS 8243. Excerpts at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/.

Stewart--Stewart, Elizabeth White, [Autobiography], in Workman, Mary Ellen B., comp., Ancestors of Isaac Mitton Stewart and Elizabeth White [1978]. CHL, MS M270.1 S8496w, 1978. Excerpts at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/sources/5452/stewart-elizabeth-white-autobiography-in-workman-mary-ellen-b-comp-ancestors-of-isaac-mitton-stewart-and-elizabeth-white-1978.