[p.3] Personal Narratives—first- or second-hand

1. Primary Eyewitness accounts — epicentral zone, not far-field
2. Pre-Earthquake Observers
3. Post-Earthquake Observers

[p. 5] New Madrid: Town History

4. General Town History
5. George Morgan Episode
6. Eliza Bryan

[p. 7] Scientific and Recent 'Popular' Accounts

7. Early Scientific (pre-Nuttli)
8. Modern Scientific (~Nuttli and later)
9. Early (pre-20th century, esp. pre-1811) Views of Earthquakes
10. Recent Popular Accounts

[p. 9] The 1811-12 Earthquakes: Descriptions & Effects

11. Description of Earthquake Features (~scientific)
12. Near-Field Descriptions & Effects

D1 descriptions (near field)

J1 descriptions (near field)

F1 descriptions (near field)

13. Earthquake Effects—Cumulative
14. General Compilations
15. Far Field: Indexed by state & town/county

[p.15] Mississippi River

16. Rivers in General: Fluvial Geomorphology
17. Mississippi River: Physical Description
18. Mississippi River—river traffic & people
19. Mississippi River—Exploration and Early History (1541-1800)
20. Mississippi Valley (physical geography)
21. Mississippi River—Steamboat New Orleans
22. Mississippi River—Island Number 10

[p. 20] Reelfoot Lake and the Eastern Bluffs

23. Reelfoot Lake: General Description
24. Reelfoot—Indian Legend
25. Reelfoot—History
26. Obion Lake/River & the Chickasaw Bluffs

[p. 21] Topography & Drainage

27. Primarily: Topography
28. Primarily: Drainage & Soil
29. Primarily Topographic/Drainage Changes
30. Drainage District Projects — Arkansas & Missouri

[p. 23] History, Religion, Recovery

31. History — General
32. History — Arkansas
33. History — Kentucky
34. History — Mississippi
35. History — Missouri
36. History — West Tennessee
37. History — Recovery
38. History — Biography
39. History — Religion

[p. 27] Native Americans

40. Native American History
41. Native American Archaeology/Pre-history
42. Tecumseh

[p. 29] Reference Works

43. General Reference
44. Maps/Cartography Reference
45. Bibliographic Reference

[p. 29] Fiction & Folklore

46. Fiction
47. Folklore & Myth

[p. 29] Other Notable Physical Phenomena

48. Comets
49. Floods
50. Little Ice Age
51. River log rafts [R] and Caddo Lake [C]/Red River raft [RR]

Obion River [O]; St. Francis River [SF]

 

[p.31] Maps

52. Mississippi River
53. Mississippi Embayment–Topo & Drainage
54. Kentucky Bend/Island No. 10
55. Reelfoot Lake/Lake Obion/Chickasaw Bluffs
56. Town of New Madrid
57. Miscellaneous—Historical/Scientific

[p. 35] Special Interest Sites

58. Arkansas Post
59. Fort Osage

Personal Narratives—first- or second-hand

1. Audubon, John James (1897). "Audubon and His Journals"
2. Bedinger, Daniel (1812). D1, island #13 above Little Prairie National Intelligencer
3. Bradbury, John (1817). "Travels in the Interior of America..." Univ. Microfilms, Inc.
4. Bringier, Louis (1821)J1, on horseback near New Madrid
5. Braunm, Michael (1896). in Smyth-Davis, M., "History of Dunklin County, Missouri"
6. Bryan, Eliza (1816 & 1826). Letters to Lorenzo Dow in 1816 and 1826
7. Chartier, Ben (1881). (D1, D3) Interview in New Madrid Weekly Record of 1881
8. Davis, John (1812). (in Cramer)D1, on river at Island #25, below Pierce
9. Dean, Gilbert (1936). "Stories of the Great Quake" [anonymous D1, river]
10. Dillard, A. N. (1869). D1, in Foster, J.W., "The Miss. Valley, Its Physical Geography"
11. "Earthquake, The" (18 Jan. 1812). D1 river account, Western Sun, Cincinnati
12. Eastwood, Martha (n.d.). verbal account of the earthquakes (G), in "Early History..."
13. Extract (The) (1 Feb 1812). Anonymous New Madrid letter (D1); Lexington Reporter
14. Fletcher, James (1812). 21 Jan 1812 letter in Pittsburg Gazette D1, Little Prairie
15. Foster, __ (Dr.) (1812). 16 Jan 1812 letter, Farmer's Reposit. -companion of Bedinger
16. Fowler, Judge Wiley P., in Purcell, Martha G. (1969) "Great Convulsions…Reelfoot L."
17. Griswold, Stanley (1813). letters in "The Medical Repository, New Series, I"
18. Harris, J. C. (nd). Written account of eyewitnesses — from Spears (1910)
19. Hildreth's eyewitness [Hildreth, Samuel Prescott, 1842]. "American Pioneer"
20. Holliday, Major Benjamin [D1(?) eyewitness D1 account in Korn, A. L. B. (1919)]
21. Holloman, Allen [eyewitness account in Cochran, K.J.H. (1992)] SE Missourian
22. Hudson’s eyewitness [Hudson, Arthur Palmer, 1947]. "Ballad of the New Madrid Eq."
23. Land, Yearby (1908). eyewitness in Berry, Daniel, Transact. Illinois St. Hist. Soc.
24. La Roche, Fermin (1928). "A Sailor's Record of the New Madrid Earthquake"
25. Lesieur, Godfrey (1867-70; ~1872). Letters, in NMWR & St. Louis Republican
26. Lesieur, Godfrey (1871). "Letter to Mr. Hager" in Switzler, Douglas, Campbell, etc.
27. McDaniel, William (1910). grandfather of Samuel McDaniel, "Journals & Diaries"
28. McCoy, Robert (n.d.)New Madrid, compares D1 and F1
29. Nichol, Pierre (1873). in Williams, Joseph S., "Old Times in West Tennessee..."
30. Nolte, Vincent (1854). "Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres" [F1 eyewitness]
31. Pierce, William Leigh (1812). "An Account of the Great Earthquakes..."
32. Ritchie, James (1859). informant to T. Dudley, Annual Rpt, Smithonian, 1858
33. Roddell, George (1812)D1, Little Prairie account
34. Shaler's 'Patron' (1815). F1, on river at Island #10
35. Shaw, John (1912). "...Account of Colonel John Shaw" Missouri Hist. Rev. and. (1856). "Shaw's Narrative" Hist. Soc. of Wisconsin (full account)
36. Speed, Mathias (1812). "From the Bairdstown (Kentucky) Repository"
37. Steele, Rev. John M. (1892). In Jewell, Horace, "History of Methodism in Arkansas"
38. Thompson, Wilson (1867). "The Autobiography of Elder Wilson Thompson..."
39. Vertner (Vettner, Verner), John (1812). 4 accounts, earliest 2/29/1812 Lex. Reporter
40. Walker, John Hardeman (1931). [account from F. V. LeSieur's "Early History"] (G)
41. Warner, Aug. (1902). "Disappearance of Island No. 94" St. Louis Globe-Democrat
42. Whittier, Catherine (1875), in Trousdale, Leon, "Annual Address...."
43. Wiseman, John (n.d.) account of the earthquakes. In "Early History" F1 account

1. Ashe, Thomas (1809). "Travels in America Performed in the Year 1806"[1806]
2. Baily, Francis (1856). "Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of N. Amer...."[1797]
3. Bossu, Jean-Bernard (1962). "Travels in the Interior of North America..."[1751-1762]
4. Brackenridge, Henry Marie (1814). "Views of Louisiana..." [1810]
5. Charlevoix, Pierre de (1761). "Journal of a Voyage to North-America[1721]
6. Collot, Victor (1826). "A Journey in North America"[1796]
7. Cuming, Fortescue (1807-1809). "Tour of the Western Country (1807-1809)[1808]
8. Ellicott, Andrew (1962). "The Journal of Andrew Ellicott...."[17??]
9. Foreman, Samuel S. (1888). "Narrative of Journey down Ohio & Miss. R."[1789-90]
10. Hutchins, Thomas (1784). "...Description of Louisiana and West-Florida...."[1765]
11. Le Page du Pratz, Antoine Simor (1774). "History of Louisiana…"[1720-1734]
12. Melish, John (1812). "Travels in the USA in the Years 1806 & 1807 & …"[1806-1811]
13. Pittman, Capt. Philip (1770) [J. McDermott, ed. (1977)]. "The Present State[1765] of the European Settlements on the Mississippi River..."
14. Pittman, Capt. Philip (1770) [R. Rea, ed. (1973)]. "The Present State of the [1765] European Settlements on the Mississippi River..."
15. Pope, John (1792). "A Tour through the Western Territories of the U.S. …"[1791]
16. Roosevelt, Nicholas (ca 1810). –report on 1809 reconnaissance voyage[1809]
17. Schulz, Christian (1810). "Travels on an Inland Voyage...."[1808]
18. Stoddard, Amos (1812). "Sketches, Historical & Descriptive, of Louisiana"[1811?]
19. Williams, Samuel Cole (1928). "Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1540–1800"

1. Audubon, John James (1929). "Journal...Trip to New Orleans..."[1820-21]
2. Austin, Stephen F. (1924). "The Austin Papers" [ed. Eugene C. Barker][1812]
3. Bardstown letter (n.d.) from the "Citizen of Kentucky' [early spring (?) 1812]
4. Brown, Samuel R. (1817). "The Western Gazetteer; or, Emigrant's Directory"[1817?]
5. Cramer, Zadok (1814). "The Navigator" [editions 1-12] [winter, 1812]
6. Darby, William (1818). "The Emigrant's Guide"[1818]
7. Daubeny, Charles (1843). "Journal of a Tour Through the United States..."[1837-38]
8. Dow, Lorenzo (1848). "The History of a Cosmopolite...."[Dec. 1815]
9. Engelmann, George (1929). "George Engelmann: Man of Science"[1837]
10. Evans, Estwick (1819). "A Pedestrious Tour, of 4000 miles..."[1818]
11. Farquhar, Allen (1820). letter to his father from New Madrid (Nov. 15)[1820]
12. Fearon, Henry Bradshaw (1818). "Sketches of America…"[1817]
13. Flagg, ( ). "Far West" describes mainly Cape Girardeau[1837]
14. Flower, George in Schmidt, Otto L. (1927). "The Miss. Valley…Englishman"[1816]
15. Flügel, J. G. in Flugel, Felix (1924). "Pages from a Journal…"[1817]
16. Flint, Timothy (1826). "Recollections of the Last Ten Years" [1819]
17. Hollander, Edward (1814). Annotated 1811 (7th) edition of Z. Cramer[April, 1814]
18. James, Edwin (1823). "Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh..."[1820]
19. Latrobe, Charles Joseph (1835). "The Rambler in North America"[1832]
20. Lyell, Sir Charles (1849). "A Second Visit to the United States..." [1846]
21. Madox, D. T. (1817). "Late Account of the Missouri Territory"[1817?]
22. Montulé, Edouard de (1821; 1950). "Travels in America, 1816-1817"[1817]
23. McBride, James (1910). "Brief Accounts of Journies in the Western Country..."[1812]
24. Nuttal, Thomas (1821). "A Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory..." [1818]
25. Ross, James (1882). "The Life and Times of Elder Reuben Ross" [1836]
26. Schoolcraft, Henry R. (1821). "A Journal of a Tour....Missouri and Arkansas"[1819]
27. Smith, James (1812). letter to Zadok Crammer, 18 February 1812[Feb. 1812]
28. Thomas, David (1819). "Travels through the Western Country…"[summer, 1816]

New Madrid: Town History

1. Amoureux, Michael (1806). "Book of Records of Surveys of....District of New Madrid"
2. Baily, Francis (1856). "Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of N. Amer. in 1796 & 1797"
3. Bissell, J. W. (1884). "Sawing out the Channel Above Island Number Ten"
4. Brackenridge, Henry Marie (1814). "Views of Louisiana..." — visited NM in 1810
5. Brown, Samuel R. (1817). "The Western Gazetteer; or, Emigrant's Directory"
6. Chartier, Ben (1881). (D1, D3) Interview in New Madrid Weekly Record of 1881
7. Clark, Elmer Talmage (1912). "One Hundred Years of New Madrid Methodism...."
8. Daughters of the American Revolution (n.d.) "New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-12, compiled from the New Madrid archive in New Madrid county courthouse"
9. Douglas, Robert Sidney (1912). "History of Southeast Missouri" –reprint, 1961
10. Goodspeed Publishing Co. (1888). "History of Southeast Missouri" Chicago
11. Graham, Richard (papers) (~1825). MO Hist. Soc.–Indian agent R. Graham’s papers
12. Houck, Louis (1908). "A History of Missouri ...." –up to statehood
13. Houck, Louis (1909). "The Spanish Régimé in Missouri"
14. Hunter-Dawson Family Papers (1819– ). Archive in Mississippi Valley Collection
15. "Hunt's Minutes" (1825) Spanish land grant claims comm. recorder Theodore Hunt
16. Kochtitzky, Otto (1931). "The Story of a Busy Life" —Ramfre Press
17. LeSieur, F. V. (Col.) ["A Creole"] (1893). "Early History...." from the NM Archive, MHS
18. Lewis, Henry (1967). "The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated" — 1857 NM painting
19. Miller, Miss Hunter (1948). "Historical New Madrid County: Mother of SE Missouri"
20. Morrow, Lynn (1980). "New Madrid and its Hinterland" Missouri Hist. Soc. Bull.
21. Mosely, William S. (1850). "New Madrid, Missouri" Western Journal
22. New Madrid Weekly Record (1866-present). microfilm at MHS, Columbia
23. Penick, James Lal (1981). "The New Madrid Earthquakes" –also a 1976 edition
24. Ravenswaay, Charles van (1948). "New Madrid Reminiscences" MHS Bull.
25. Reps, John (1959). "New Madrid on the Mississippi" Soc. Archit. Hist. Journal
26. Reps, John W. (1965). "The Making of Urban America"
27. Richard, Brenda E. (1940). "Index to the New Madrid Archive, 1791-1804"
28. Rothensteiner, (Msgr) John E. (1939). "Historical Sketch of Catholic New Madrid"
29. Savelle, Max (1932b). "The Founding of New Madrid, Missouri"
30. Shoemaker, Floyd C. (1955). "New Madrid, Mother of Southeast Missouri"
31. Shrum, Edison E. (1989). "The Real New Madrid Earthquakes"
32. Vann, Jane and Vera Ashley (1985). "New Madrid County Cemetary Inscriptions"
33. Watson, Robert Goah (1855). "Memoir" [Douglas] & "Early New Madrid History" [WHMC]
34. Wetmore, Alphonso (1837). "Gazetteer of the State of Missouri"
35. WPA Historical Records Survey, New Madrid County (1935-44).

1. Hildreth, Samuel Prescott (1848). "Pioneer History" Ohio River valley & NW Terr.
2. Houck, Louis (1909). "The Spanish Régimé in Missouri"
3. Jacobs, James Ripley (1938). "Tarnished Warrior: Major-General James Wilkinson"
4. Reps, John (1959). "New Madrid on the Mississippi" Soc. Archit. Hist. Journal
5. Reps, John W. (1965). "The Making of Urban America"
6. Savelle, Max (1932a). "George Morgan, Colony Builder" Columbia Univ. Press
7. Swem, E. G. (1918). "A Letter from New Madrid, 1789"

1. Bryan, Eliza (1816 & 1826). Letters to Lorenzo Dow in 1816 and 1826

2. Featherstone, Graden (n.d.). "Eyewitness Accounts of the 1811-12 Earthquakes..."

1. Flint, Timothy (1826). "Recollections of the Last Ten Years"

3. Garrett, W. B. (1900). "The Earthquakes of 1811" (just reprints E.B.'s 1816 letter)

1. Houck, Louis (1908). "A History of Missouri ...." –up to statehood

1. Houck, Louis (1909). "The Spanish Régimé in Missouri"

2. Howard, Mary Eliza (n.d.) anonymous Tennessee State Historical Society publication

—see also Featherstone, Graden (n.d.)—

9. Hunter-Dawson Family Papers (1819– ). Archive in Mississippi Valley Collection

10. LeSieur, F. V. (Col.) ["A Creole"] (1893). "Early History...." from the NM Archive, MHS

3. Richard, Brenda E. (1940). "Index to the New Madrid Archive, 1791-1804"

6. Shrum, Edison E. (1989). "The Real New Madrid Earthquakes"

20. Vann, Jane and Vera Ashley (1985). "New Madrid County Cemetary Inscriptions"

Scientific and recent 'popular' accounts

1. Agar, W. M., R. F. Flint & C. R. Longwell (1929). "Geology from Original Sources"
2. Benson, Allen L. (1928). "The Story of Geology" –extract in MO Hist. Rev.
3. Branner, George C. & J. M. Hansell (1933). "Earthquake Risks in Arkansas"
4. Davison, Charles (1936). "Great Earthquakes"
5. DeKay, J. E. (1826). "Notes on a Fossil Skull in the Cabinet of the Lyceum...."
6. Fuller, Myron L. (1905a). "The New Madrid Earthquake, by Edward M. Shepard..."
7. Fuller, Myron L. (1906c). "Comparative Intensities of the New Madrid, Charleston,...""
8. Fuller, Myron L. (1912). "The New Madrid Earthquake" USGS Bulletin 494
9. Haywood, John (1823). "The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee...."
10. Heinrich, Ross R. (1941). "A Contribution to the Seismic History of Missouri" BSSA
11. Krinitzsky, Ellis L. (1950). "Geological Investigation of Faulting in Lower Miss. Valley"
12. Macelwane, James B. (1930). "The Mississippi Valley Earthquake Problem"
13. MacFarlane, J. (1883). "The 'Earthquake' at New Madrid...Probably not an Earthq."
14. Mateker, Emil J. (1968). "Earthquakes in Missouri" –Wash. Univ. Magazine
15. 4.McGee, W. J. (1892). "A Fossil Earthquake"GSA Bulletin
16. Moneymaker, Berlin C. (1954). "Some Early Earthquakes in Tenn. & Adjacent States"
17. Morse, William C. (1941). "New Madrid Earthquake Craters"
18. Owen, David Dale (1856). "Report of the Geological Survey of Kentucky, 1854-55"
19. Owen, David Dale (1858). "...Geological Reconnaissance ...northern Counties of Ark."
20. Safford, James M. (1869). "Geology of Tennessee"
21. Safford, James M. (1886). "..Economic & Agricultural Geology....State of Tennessee"
22. Sampson, F. A. (1913). "The New Madrid and Other Earthquakes in Missouri"
23. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1889). "Aspects of the Earth"
24. Shepard, E. M. (1905). "The New Madrid Earthquake"
25. Usher, F. C. (1837). "On the Elevation of the Banks of the Mississippi in 1811"

1. Clendenin, C. W. et al. (1989). "Reinterpretation of Faulting in Southeast Missouri"
2. Fisk, Harold N. (1944). "Geological Investigations of the Alluvial Valley..."
3. Grohskopf, J. G. (1955) "Subsurface Geology of the Miss. Embayment of SE Mo."
4. Hamilton, Robert M. (1980). "Quakes along the Mississippi" Natural History
5. Jackson, K. C. (1979). "Earthquakes and Earthquake History of Arkansas"
6. Knox, Ray and David Stewart (1998). "Morphoseismic Features in the NMSZ…"
7. Nuttli, Otto W. (1973). "The Mississippi Valley Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812...."
8. Nuttli, Otto W. (1977). "Eval. Eq. Haz., Cent. Miss. Valley" Am. Nuc. Soc. Trans.
9. Nuttli, Otto W. (1981). "Evaluation of Past Studies..." CUSEPP Rpt. 81-1
10. Nuttli, Otto W. (1990). "Effects of Earthquakes in the Central U.S." CES SEMO rpt.
11. O'Leary, Dennis (1977). "Remote Sensing for Lineaments in the Miss. Embaym."
12. Quinn, J. H. (1961). "Prairie Mounds of Arkansas" –Ark. Archaeol. Soc. Newsletter
13. Rodbell, Donald T. (1996). "...Fluvial Terrace Deposits in NW Tenn." [Obion River]
14. Royall, P. D. et al. (1991). "Late Quaternary Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments of the Central Mississippi Alluvial Valley"Geol. Soc. Am. Bull.
15. Russ, David (1982). "Style & Significance of Surface Deformation in the Vicinity..."
16. Saucier, R. T. (1987). "Geomorph Interpretations of Late Quat. Terraces...W. Tenn."
17. Saucier, Roger T. (1994). "Geomorph. & Quat. Geologic History of L. Miss. Valley"
18. Stearns, Richard G. (1979). "Recent Vertical Movement..." NUREG/CR-0874
19. Stewart, D. & R. Knox (1995). "What is the Maximum Depth Liquefaction Can Occur?"
20. Street, R. (1982). "A Contribution to the Documentation...." Earthquake Notes
21. Street, R. & O. Nuttli (1984). "The Central Miss. Valley Earthquakes of 1811-1812"
22. Thompson, J. & D. Stewart (1992). "Landslides Subsequent to a 4.7 Magnitude..."
23. Tributsch, H. (1984). "When the Snakes Awake"

1. Bevis, J. (1757). "The History & Philosophy of Earthquakes from the Remotest..."
2. Britannica, 3rd edition (1798). "Encyclopaedia...." First American Edition
3. Clark, Charles E. (1965). "Science, Reason, & an Angry God...Literature of an Eq"
4. Griswold, Stanley (1813). letters in "The Medical Repository, New Series, I"
5. Halstead, Murat (1902). "The World on Fire...."
6. Haywood, John (1823). "The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee...."
7. Humbolt, Alexander von (1849). "Cosmos" [probably just Volume 1]
8. Lyell, Sir Charles (1875). "Principles of Geology" 1st (1830) & 12th editions
9. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1889). "Aspects of the Earth"
10. Volney, C. F. (1804). "A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America"
11. Williams, Samuel (1794). "The Natural and Civil History of Vermont"

1. American History [no author] (1991). "The Other(?) Missouri Earthquake" v. 25, Jan.
2. Atkinson, W. (1989). "The Next New Madrid Earthquake: a Survival Guide...."
3. Bagnall, N. (1996). "On Shaky Ground..." — Univ. of Missouri Press, Columbia
4. Clark, Blake (1969). "America's Greatest Earthquake" Reader's Digest
5. Cochran, K.J.H. (1992). "The World Discovered the Region in 1811" Allen Holloman
6. Curry, Jerome P. (1972). "Bootheel Quakes in 1800s Weren't Nation's Strongest"
7. Dougan, Michael Bruce (1994). "Arkansas Odyssey: The Saga of Arkansas...."
8. Fisher, Alfred J. (1935). "When A Great River Flowed Upstream" Missouri Mag.
9. Hamilton, Robert M. (1980). "Quakes along the Mississippi" Natural History
10. Platt, Carolyn V. (1993, Sep-Oct). "Nightmare on the Mississippi...." Timeline
11. Star, Jack (1984). "QUAKE: The Chicago-New Madrid Connection"

The 1811-12 Earthquakes: Descriptions & Effects

1. Christy, D. (1846). "Geology. No. 8"Huntsville Democrat – Reelfoot L./bluffs
2. Fuller, Myron L. (1912). "The New Madrid Earthquake" USGS Bulletin 494
3. Knox, Ray and David Stewart (1998). "Morphoseismic Features in the NMSZ…"
4. Kroll, Harry Harrison (1919-1965). Mississippi Valley Collection Papers
5. McGee, W. J. (1892). "A Fossil Earthquake"GSA Bulletin
6. Morse, William C. (1941). "New Madrid Earthquake Craters"
7. Owen, David Dale (1856). "Report of the Geological Survey of Kentucky, 1854-55"
8. Owen, David Dale (1858). "...Geological Reconnaissance ...northern Counties of Ark."
9. Quinn, J. H. (1961). "Prairie Mounds of Arkansas" –Ark. Archaeol. Soc. Newsletter
10. Russ, David (1982). "Style & Significance of Surface Deformation in the Vicinity..."
11. Safford, James M. (1869). "Geology of Tennessee"
12. Safford, James M. (1886). "The Economic & Agricultural Geology of the State of Tenn."
13. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1869). "Earthquakes of the Western United States"
14. Shepard, E. M. (1905). "The New Madrid Earthquake"
15. Stearns, R. G., E. W. Blythe and M. L. Hoyal (1989). "Guidebook of Geology and Related History of the Chickasaw Bluffs and Mississippi River Valley in West Tenn."
16. Stewart, David & Ray Knox (1992). "Representative Earthq. Features in the NMSZ"
17. Stewart, David & Ray Knox (1995). "The New Madrid Fault Finders Guide"
18. Usher, F. C. (1837). "On the Elevation of the Banks of the Mississippi in 1811"

D1 descriptions (near field)

1. Bedinger, Daniel (1812). "Earthquake on the Mississippi" National Intelligencer
2. Bradbury, John (1817). "Travels in the Interior of America..." Univ. Microfilms, Inc.
3. Braunm, Michael (1896). in Smyth-Davis, M., "History of Dunklin County, Missouri"
4. Brooks, Jared, Appendix to H. McMurtrie (1819) "Sketches of Louisville and its Environs" [see also Casseday, Ben (1852)]
5. Bryan, Eliza (1816 & 1826). Letters to Lorenzo Dow in 1816 and 1826
6. Davis, John (Capt.) (1812). Jan.5, 1812 letter. In Cramer, Z. (1814), p. 305-306.
7. Dillard, A. N. (1869). D1, in Foster, J.W., "The Miss. Valley, Its Physical Geography"
8. Dudley, Timothy (1859). "The Earthquake of 1811...." –James Ritchie's account–
9. "Earthquake, The" (18 Jan. 1812). D1 river account, Western Sun, Cincinnati
10. Extract (The) (1 Feb 1812). Anonymous New Madrid letter (D1); Lexington Reporter
11. Fletcher, James (1812). 21 Jan 1812 letter in 14 Feb 1812 Pittsburg Gazette
12. Foster, __ (Dr.) (1812). "More of the Earthquake" 16 Jan 1812 letter, Farmer's Reposit.
13. Hildreth, Samuel Prescott, (1842). "American Pioneer"
14. Holliday, Major Benjamin [eyewitness account in Korn, A. L. B. (1919)]
15. Korn, Anna Lee Brosius (1919). "Major Benjamin Holliday, 1786-1859"
16. La Roche, Fermin (1928). "A Sailor's Record of the New Madrid Earthquake"
17. Lesieur, Godfrey (1871). "Letter to Mr. Hager" in Switzler, Douglas, Campbell, etc.
18. Mitchill, Samuel L. (1814). "A Detailed Narrative of the Earthquakes..."
19. Nuttli, Otto W. (1973). "The Miss. Valley Earthquakes ...." with 44-page microfiche
20. Pierce, William Leigh (1812). "An Account of the Great Earthquakes..."
21. Shaw, John (1912). "NM Eq.: Account of Colonel John Shaw" Missouri Hist. Review
22. Shaw, John (1856). "Shaw's Narrative" Hist. Soc. of Wisconsin (full account, pub. 1903)
23. Smyth-Davis, Mary F. (1896). "History of Dunklin County, Missouri"

J1 descriptions (near field)

1. Audubon, John James (1897). "Audubon and His Journals" [ed., Marie R. Audubon]
2. Binkerd, H. D. (1869). "The Mammoth Cave and Its Denizens"
3. Bringier, Louis (1821). "Notices of the Geology, Mineralogy, Topography...."
4. Brooks, Jared, Appendix to H. McMurtrie (1819) "Sketches of Louisville and its Environs" [see also Casseday, Ben (1852)]
5. Bryan, Eliza (1816 & 1826). Letters to Lorenzo Dow in 1816 and 1826
6. Fuller, Myron L. (1905c). "Aububon’s [sic] Account of the New Madrid Earthquake"
7. Mitchill, Samuel L. (1814). "A Detailed Narrative of the Earthquakes..."
8. Nuttli, Otto W. (1973). "The Miss. Valley Earthquakes ...." with 44-page microfiche

F1 descriptions (near field)

1. Brooks, Jared, Appendix to H. McMurtrie (1819) "Sketches of Louisville and its Environs" [see also Casseday, Ben (1852)]

2. Bryan, Eliza (1816 & 1826). Letters to Lorenzo Dow in 1816 and 1826

3. Hawkins, Jeanne (1963). "The Day the Mississippi Ran Backwards"

13. Judge Humphreys (1812). "Big Earthquake of 1811-12..." Nashville American (1900)

8. McBride, James (1910). "Brief Accounts of Journies in the Western Country..."

9. Mitchill, Samuel L. (1814). "A Detailed Narrative of the Earthquakes..."

20. Nolte, Vincent (1854). "Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres" [F1 eyewitness]

2. Nuttli, Otto W. (1973). "The Miss. Valley Earthquakes ...." with 44-page microfiche

9. Shaler, William (1814). Letter to Mitchill, Samuel L. (1814). 'Patron's F1 account

10. Shaw, John (1912). "NM Eq.: Account of Colonel John Shaw" Missouri Hist. Review

11. Shaw, John (1856). "Shaw's Narrative" Hist. Soc. of Wisconsin (full account, pub. 1903)

9. Speed, Mathias (1812). "From the Bairdstown (Kentucky) Repository"

28. Vertner (Vettner, Verner), John (1812). 4 accounts, earliest 2/29/1812 Lex. Reporter

18. Willey, Susan (1984). "Mississippi Reversed" account of Looe Baker (Natchez)

29. Wiseman, John (n.d.) account of the earthquakes. In "Early History", NM archive

1. Agar, W. M., R. F. Flint & C. R. Longwell (1929). "Geology from Original Sources"
2. Bardstown letter (The) (n.d.). "For the Bards Town Repository" –a citizen of Kentucky
3. Barrett, Homer A. (1939) "The Great New Madrid Earthquake of 1811" WHMC file
4. Beck, Lewis Caleb (1823). "Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri"
5. Benson, Allen L. (1928). "The Story of Geology" –extract in MO Hist. Rev.
6. Berry, Daniel (1908). "The Illinois Earthquake of 1811 & 1812"-see also Land, Yearly
7. Boeson, Victor Hugo (1941). "America's Greatest Earthquake" Coronet
8. Coffman, J., C. A. von Hake & C. Stover (1982). "Earthquake History of the U.S."
9. Cramer, Zadok (1812). Jan 23, 1812 letter, Natchez to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Gaz.
10. Davis, Edwin Adams (1950). "A Northern Sojourner's Remembrances of the Mississ."
11. Devens, R. M. (1882). "Our First Century or 100 Great and Memorial Events…."
12. Dillard, A. N. (1869). D1, in Foster, J.W., "The Miss. Valley, Its Physical Geography"
13. Douglas, Robert Sidney (1912). "History of Southeast Missouri"–reprint, 1961
14. Dudley, Timothy (1859). "The Earthquake of 1811...." –James Ritchie's account–
15. Ellis, James F. (1929). "The Influence of Environment on the Settlement of Missouri"
16. Flint, Timothy (1826). "Recollections of the Last Ten Years"
17. Fuller, Myron L. (1905b). "Causes and Periods of Earthquakes in the New Madrid ..."
18. Fuller, Myron L. (1906a). "Our Greatest Earthquakes" —Popular Science Monthly
19. Fuller, Myron L. (1906b). "Earthquakes and the Forest"
20. Fuller, Myron L. (1906c). "Comparative Intensities of the New Madrid, Charleston,...""
21. Fuller, Myron L. (1912). "The New Madrid Earthquake" USGS Bulletin 494
22. Griswold, Stanley (1813). letters in "The Medical Repository, New Series, I"
23. Halstead, Murat (1902). "The World on Fire...."
24. Haywood, John (1823). "The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee...."
25. Houck, Louis (1908). "A History of Missouri ...." –up to statehood
26. Howe, Henry (1851). "Historical Collections of the Great West"
27. Humphreys [Judge] (1812). "Big Earthquake of 1811-12..." Nashville American (1900)
28. LeSieur, F. V. (Col.) ["A Creole"] (1893). "Early History...." from the NM Archive, MHS
29. Legan, Marshall S. (1976). "Popular Reactions to the New Madrid Earthquakes..."
30. Linn, Lewis F. (1837). letter in Wetmore, A. "Gazetteer of the State of Missouri"
31. Lloyd, James T. (1856). "Lloyd's Steamboat Directory & Disasters on the Western..."
32. Lyell, Sir Charles (1849). "A Second Visit to the United States..."
33. Lyell, Sir Charles (1875). "Principles of Geology" 12th ed., v1/p.452-53; v2/p.106-110
34. McDaniel, Samuel M. (1910) "Journals and Diaries" eyewitness, but cannot use
35. McRaven, William Henry (1967). "Tennessee Prodigies"
36. Montessus de Ballore, F. de (1924). "Géologie Sismologique" pp. 16-33.
37. Moore, Edith Wyatt (1958). "Natchez Under-the-Hill"
38. Mosely, William S. (1850). "New Madrid, Missouri" Western Journal
39. Mueller, Myrl Rhine (1990). "Lost in the Annals. History & Legend of the NM Eq."
40. Musick, John R. (1897). "Stories of Missouri"[mainly a rehash of Flint]
41. Nelson, Wilbur A. (1924). "Reelfoot—An Earthquake Lake"
42. Platt, Carolyn V. (1993, Sep-Oct). "Nightmare on the Mississippi...." Timeline
43. Ravenswaay, Charles van (1841-1990). papers, Coll. #3873, West. His. Ms. Coll.
44. Richter, Charles F. (1958). "Elementary Seismology" NM pages, 593-594
45. Ritchie, James (1859). informant to T. Dudley, Annual Rpt, Smithonian, 1858
46. Ross, Margaret (1968), "The New Madrid Earthquake" Ark. Hist. Quarterly
47. Sampson, F. A. (1913). "The New Madrid and Other Earthquakes in Missouri"
48. Sanford, Charles L. (ed.) (1964). "Quest for America, 1810-1824"
49. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1869). "Earthquakes of the Western United States"
50. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1885). "Kentucky"
51. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1889). "Aspects of the Earth"
52. Spears, Raymond (1910). "The New Madrid Earthquake Country" Americana
53. Trousdale, Leon (1875). "Annual Address...." [eyewitness (G): Catharine Whittier]
54. Van Every, Dale (1964). "The Final Challenge, The American Frontier, 1804-1845"
55. Van Tramp, John C. (1866). "Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures..."
56. Viitanen, Wayne (1973a). "Folklore and Fakelore of an Earthquake"
57. Viitanen, Wayne (1973b). "The Winter the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Early Kentuckians Report the New Madrid, Missouri, Earthquake of 1811-1812"
58. Webb, Joseph (1936). "A Reminder of the Earthquake of 1811" [letter to De Witt Clinton]
59. Wetmore, Alphonso (1837). "Gazetteer of the State of Missouri" [has Lewis Linn]

1. The Bardstown (Bairdstown) Repository (1811-1812). original source newspaper
2. Broadhead, G. C. (1902). "The New Madrid Earthquake" –Amer. Geologist
3. Casseday, Ben (1852). "History of Louisville from Earliest Settlement until…1852"
4. Coffman, J., C. A. von Hake & C. Stover (1982). "Earthquake History of the U.S."
5. Daughters of the American Revolution (n.d.) "New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-12, compiled from the New Madrid archive in New Madrid county courthouse"
6. Dean, Gilbert (1936). "Stories of the Great Quake" —Nashville Banner, 1936—
7. Dean, Lewis, S. (1994). "Tecumseh's Prophecy: The...New Madrid Eqs. in Alabama"
8. Griswold, Stanley (1813). letters in "The Medical Repository, New Series, I"
9. Joint Collection (Street & Nuttli, 1984). "Accounts of the 1811-1812 earthquakes..."
10. Krinitzsky, Ellis L. (1950). "Geological Investigation of Faulting in Lower Miss. Valley"
11. Logsdon, D. (1990). "I Was There! in the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12"
12. Mitchill, Samuel L. (1814). "A Detailed Narrative of the Earthquakes..."
13. Newspapers (1811 – ). listed in the NM Effects by State/Town notebooks
14. Nuttli, Otto W. (1973). "The Miss. Valley Earthquakes ...." with 44-page microfiche
15. Smith, Robert (1812). "An Account of the Earthquake which Occurred in the United States, North America, on the 16th December, 1811, the 23rd of January, and the 7th of February, 1812"
16. Stewart, David & Ray Knox (1993). "The Earthquake that Never Went Away"
17. Stewart, David & Ray Knox (1995). "The Earthquake America Forgot"
18. Street, R. (1982). "A Contribution to the Documentation...." Earthquake Notes

1. Audubon, John James (1897).
2. Berry, Daniel (1908). -see also Land, YearlyWhite County, SE IL
3. Binkerd, H. D. (1869).
4. Bower, J. (1961). D1 report in Posey, W. B.
5. Brooks, Jared, Appendix to H. McMurtrie (1819)Louisville KY
6. Brown, S. (1906).Kaskaskia IL
7. Brown, William (1930). in Pusey, William A.
8. Callaway PSAR (1974).
9. Collins, Lewis (1848)Louisville KY
10. Cramer, Zadok (1812). Natchez MS
11. Crist, George Heinrich (1738– ). Crist Family Diary [D1,J1,F1, near Louisville KY]
12. Drake, Daniel (1815). Cincinnati OH
13. Eades, Harvey l. (1870).
14. Edwards, John Clark (1/29 & 2/26 1812). (Penn. Gazette) Western NC
15. Flagg, ( ). Cape Girardeau MO
16. Irving, Washington (1817). "Tour in Scotland…Other…Notes"Columbia SC (?)
17. James, Edwin (1823).
18. Lloyd, J. T. (? author uncert.) (1812).
19. Louisiana Gazette, St. Louis (21 Dec. 1811).St. Louis MO
20. Madison, James (1812). Washington DC
21. Mansfield, J. M. (1812).Cincinnati OH
22. McDermott, J. F. (1949).
23. McLoughlin, William G. ( n. d. ) Springplace GA
24. McRaven, H. (1949). Nashville TN
25. McRaven, William Henry (1967). (also McRaven, 1949)
26. Mooney, James (1972) "Myths of the Cherokee..."
27. Pearce, Helen Baker (1958). Hopkins County KY
28. Posey, Walter Brownlow (1957).
29. Purcell, Martha G. (1969).Smithland, Livingston Cty KY
30. Pusey, William Allen (1930). see Brown, William
31. Rankin, John (1837).
32. Reynolds, John (1852).
33. Reynolds, John (1855). Cahokia IL
34. Ross, James (1882). Clarksville TN
35. Sargent, Winthrop (1815).Natchez MS
36. Sellers, Samuel (1886). Union County KY
37. Smith, Edward D. (1818). Water wells inColumbia SC
38. Sweet, William Warren (1936).
39. Walker, Adam (1816). Vincennes IN
40. White, Edgar (1925). [Duck River Gibson]
41. Willey, Susan (1984). Natchez MS
42. Williams, S. C. (1930)-Andrew JacksonNashville TN

The Mississippi River

1. Leopold, Luna B. & W. B. Langbein (1966). "River Meanders" Scientific American
2. Matthes, G. H. (1951). "Paradoxes of the Mississippi" Scientific American
3. Schumn, Stanley A. (1977). "The Fluvial System"
4. Schumn, Stanley A. (1984). "Alluvial River Response to Active Tectonics"

21. Anthony, Allen (1987). "River at the Door"
22. Autin, Whitney J. et al. (1991). "Quaternary Geology of the Lower Mississippi Valley"
23. Bernard, S. & J. S. Totten (1824?). "Report of the Board of Engineers on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers" House Ex. Doc. 35, 17 Congr.
24. Bragg, Marion (1977). "Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River"
25. Conclin, George (1850; 1855). "Conclin’s New River Guide; or A Gazetteer…"
26. Cramer, Zadok (1814). "The Navigator" [8th edition; representing edit. 1-12]
27. Elliot, D. O. (1932). "Improvement of Lower Mississippi River..." –3 vols., plus ~5 maps
28. Fischer, Karin J. & Schumm, S. A. (1993). "Geomorphic Evidence of Deformation..."
29. Fisk, Harold N. (1944). "Geological Investigations of the Alluvial Valley..."
30. Flint, Timothy (1828). "The History and Geography of the Mississippi Valley"
31. House Executive Document 35 (1821). Report to Congress on the Ohio & Miss. Rivs.
32. Humphreys, A. A. & H. L. Abbot (1861). "...Physics & Hydraulics of the Miss. River"
33. Leahy, Ethel C. (1931). "Who's Who on the Ohio River..." –includes Crammer's 8th
34. Matthes, G. H. (1951). "Paradoxes of the Mississippi" Scientific American
35. Mississippi River Commission (1938). "Lower Mississippi River Early Stream Channels at Approximate Half-Century Intervals"
36. Nuttal, Thomas (1821). "A Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory..."
37. Reps, John W. (1994). "Cities of the Mississippi" (portfilio of 19th century paintings)
38. Ross, (Captain) Charles (1847). "The Earthquake of 1811 at New Madrid..."
39. Russ, David (1982). "Style & Significance of Surface Deformation in the Vicinity..."
40. Saucier, Roger T. (1994). "Geomorph. & Quat. Geologic History of L. Miss. Valley"
41. Schumn, Stanley A. (1984). "Alluvial River Response to Active Tectonics"
42. Suter, Charles R. (1878). "Report to the Sec. of War, House of Rep., 45^th Congress"
43. Walters, W. H. (1975). "Regime Changes of the Lower Mississippi River" ms thesis

1. Allen, Michael (1990). "Western Rivermen, 1763-1861...."
2. Ambler, Charles Henry (1932). "A History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley"
3. Baldwin, Leland D. (1941). "The Keelboat Age on Western Waters"
4. Banta, Richard (1949). "The Ohio"
5. Bowman, James Cloyd (1957). "Mike Fink, Snapping Turtle of the O-hi-o-o...."
6. Davis, William C. (1995). "A Way through the Wilderness"
7. Evans, Estwick (1819). "A Pedestrious Tour, of 4000 miles, .... the Western States..."
8. Federal Writers Project (1941). "Ship Registers & Enrollments...N.O.," V. 1, 1804-20
9. Gould, Emerson W. (1889). "Fifty Years on the Mississippi...."
10. Habermehl, John (1901). "Life on the Western Waters"
11. Havighurst, Walter (1964). "Voices on the River"
12. Hunter, Louis C. (1949). "Steamboats on the Western Rivers"
13. Lloyd, James T. (1856). "Lloyd's Steamboat Directory & Disasters on the Western..."
14. Matthias, Virginia Park (1945). "Natchez-under-the-Hill as It Developed…."

1. Bossu, Jean-Bernard (1962). "Travels in the Interior of North America, 1751-1762"
2. Davis, Edwin Adams (1950). "A Northern Sojourner's Remembrances of the Mississ."
3. Delanglez, Jean (1943). "The Sources of the Delisle Map of America, 1703"
4. D'Iberville, Pierre Le Moyen (1981). "Iberville's Gulf Journals" –[1699-1702]
5. Dickinson, Samuel D. (1984). "Lake Mitchegamas and the St. Francis"
6. Hennepin, Louis (1683 Fr.; 1698 Eng.). "Description de la Louisiane…."
7. Hutchins, Thomas (1778). "...Description of Virginia, Penn., Maryland & N. Carolina..."
8. Hutchins, Thomas (1784). "...Description of Louisiana and West-Florida...."
9. Joutel, Henri (1714), edited by Cox, Isaac J. (1922). Vol II: La Salle's last voyage
10. Joutel, Henri (1714), ed. by Stiles, Henry R.. (1922). "Journal of the Last Voyage..."
11. Le Sueur, Pierre-Charles (1694-1722). "Mémoires de Mr. Le Sueur" ASH, Paris
12. Library of Congress (1764). "Journal…Proceedings of 22^nd Regiment up MR in 1764"
13. McWilliams, Richebourg Gaillard (1953). "Fleur d’Lys & Calumet…" Pénicault Narrative
14. Pittman, Capt. Philip (1770) [J. McDermott, ed. (1977)]. "The Present State[1765] of the European Settlements on the Mississippi River..."
15. Pittman, Capt. Philip (1770) [R. Rea, ed. (1973)]. "The Present State of the [1765] European Settlements on the Mississippi River..."
16. Robins, Ruby Matson (?pre-1980). "Ownership of Land…France, Spain, U.S."
17. Swanton, John R. (1939). "Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Comm."
18. Williams, Samuel Cole (1928). "Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1540–1800"

1. Beck, Lewis Caleb (1823). "Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri"
2. Blythe, Ernie et al. (1981). "Earthquakes & Related Features of the Miss, River Valley"
3. Brackenridge, Henry Marie (1814). "Views of Louisiana..." — visited NM in 1810
4. Bradbury, John (1817). "Travels in the Interior of America..." Univ. Microfilms, Inc.
5. Darby, William (1816). "A Geographical Description of the State of Louisiana…"
6. Darby, William (1833). "A New Gazetteer of the United States of America…"
7. Douglas, Robert Sidney (1912). "History of Southeast Missouri"–reprint, 1961
8. Fisk, Harold N. (1944). "Geological Investigations of the Alluvial Valley..."
9. Flint, Timothy (1826). "Recollections of the Last Ten Years"
10. Flint, Timothy (1828). "The History and Geography of the Mississippi Valley"
11. Foster, John Wells (1869). "The Mississippi Valley: Its Physical Geography" also see Dillard, A. N. (D1 descriptions)
12. Halliburton, William Henry (1903). "…Topographical…History…Arkansas County…"
13. Houck, Louis (1908). "A History of Missouri ...." –up to statehood
14. Hutchins, Thomas (1778). "...Description of Virginia, Penn., Maryland & N. Carolina..."
15. Hutchins, Thomas (1784). "...Description of Louisiana and West-Florida...."
16. Leahy, Ethel C. (1931). "Who's Who on the Ohio River..." –includes Crammer's 8th
17. Lewis, Henry (1967). "The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated"
18. Marbut, C. F. (1902). "..Evolution of the Northern Part...Lowlands of SE Missouri"
19. Melish, John (1826). "A Geographical Description of the United States"
20. Morse, D. A. & P. A. Morse (1983). "Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley"
21. O’Sullivan & Morley (1854). "The Swamp Lands of SE Missouri" Iron Mnt. R-road
22. Royall, P. D. et al. (1991). "Late Quaternary Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments of the Central Mississippi Alluvial Valley"Geol. Soc. Am. Bull.
23. Russ, David (1982). "Style & Significance of Surface Deformation in the Vicinity..."
24. Safford, James M. (1886). "The Economic & Agricultural Geology... State of Tenn."
25. Saucier, R. T. (1987). "Geomorph Interpretations of Late Quat. Terraces...W. Tenn."
26. Saucier, Roger T. (1994). "Geomorph. & Quat. Geologic History of L. Miss. Valley"
27. Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1821). "A Journal of a Tour....Missouri and Arkansas"
28. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1885). "Kentucky"
29. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1887). "Notes on the Bald Cypress"
30. Shepard, E. M. (1905). "The New Madrid Earthquake"
31. Shrum, Edison E. (1989). "The Real New Madrid Earthquakes"
32. Stearns, R. G., E. W. Blythe and M. L. Hoyal (1989). "Guidebook of Geology and Related History of the Chickasaw Bluffs and Miss. River Valley..."
33. Stoddard, Amos (1812). "Sketches, Historical & Descriptive, of Louisiana"
34. Van Tramp, John C. (1866). "Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures..."
35. Wetmore, Alphonso (1837). "Gazetteer of the State of Missouri" [has Lewis Linn]

1. Ambler, Charles Henry (1932). "A History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley"
2. Dohan, Margaret H. (1981). "Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat...."
3. Dunbar, Seymour (1915). "A History of Travel in America" – 4 volumes
4. Federal Writers Project (1941). "Ship Registers & Enrollments...N.O.," V. 1, 1804-20
5. Habermehl, John (1901). "Life on the Western Waters"
6. Hunter, Louis C. (1949). "Steamboats on the Western Rivers"
7. Latrobe, Charles Joseph (1835). "The Rambler in North America"
8. Latrobe, J. H. B. (1871). "The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters"
9. Lloyd, James T. (1856). "Lloyd's Steamboat Directory & Disasters on the Western..."
10. Maryland Historical Society (1867). "Fund Publication" —re, s-boat New Oreleans
11. Preble, George H. (1883). "History of Steam Navigation"
12. Roosevelt, Nicholas (ca 1810). –report to Fulton on 1809 reconnaissance voyage
13. Sanford, Charles L. (ed.) (1964). "Quest for America, 1810-1824"

1. Daniel, Larry J. & Lynn N. Bock (1996). "Island No. 10" The Struggle for the..."
2. Ross, Capt. Charles (1846). "Legend of the Memorable Earthquake of 1811"
3. Stearns, Richard G. (1992). "The Civil War Battle of Island No. 10" TN Acad. Sci. J.

Reelfoot Lake and the Eastern Bluffs

1. Alexander, T. H. (1923). "Reelfoot Lake" "Nashville Tennessean" Sept 16, 1923
2. Bartholomew, David (1996). "Earthquake Preserved Native American History"
3. Blythe, E. W., W. T. McCutchen & R. G. Stearns (1975). "Geology of Reelfoot Lake.."
4. Blythe, Ernie et al. (1981). "Earthquakes & Related Features of the Miss. River Valley"
5. Botkin, B. A., ed. (1955). "The Great Shake" in A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore
6. Bryan, Eliza (1816 & 1826). Letters to Lorenzo Dow in 1816 and 1826
7. Christy, D. (1846). "Geology. No. 8"Huntsville Democrat – Reelfoot L./bluffs
8. Dickson, Bruce D. & L.J. Campbell (1979). "Reelfoot & L. Isom Nat Wildlife Refuges"
9. Donaldson, R. C. (1956). "Editor of Unpubl. Diaries of Council Peacock & M. Griffith"
10. Federal Writer's Project (1939). "Tennessee: A Guide to the State"
11. Fuller, Myron L. (1912). "The New Madrid Earthquake" USGS Bulletin 494
12. Glass, P. T. (1900). "Sketch of Henry Rutherford"(info on early surveys)
13. Glenn, L. C. (1933). "The Geography & Geology of Reelfoot Lake" Tn Acad. Science
14. Hazard, James O. (1933). "The Trees of the Reelfoot Lake Region" Tn Acad. Science
15. Humphreys, Cecil C. (1960). "..Formation of Reelfoot Lake...Consequent..Problems"
16. Leonard, Lexie (1991). "Reelfoot Lake Treasures"
17. LeSieur, F. V. (Col.) ["A Creole"] (1893). "Early History...." from the NM Archive, MHS
18. Marshall, Edwin Hill (1941). "History of Obion County"
19. McGee, W. J. (1892). "A Fossil Earthquake"GSA Bulletin
20. Nelson, Wilbur A. (1924). "Reelfoot—An Earthquake Lake"
21. Owen, David Dale (1856). "Report of the Geological Survey of Kentucky, 1854-55"
22. Purcell, Martha G. (1929). "Birth of Reelfoot Lake" –book, ref. by Vanderwood (1969)
23. Purcell, Martha G. (1969). "Great Convulsions of Mother Earth….Formed Reelfoot Lake"
24. Ross, (Captain) Charles (1847). "The Earthquake of 1811 at New Madrid..."
25. Russ, David (1982). "Style & Significance of Surface Deformation in the Vicinity..."
26. Sadler, Christine (1933). "Earthquake in 1811 Cause of Its Formation"–Nash.Banner
27. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1869). "Earthquakes of the Western United States"
28. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1887). "Notes on the Bald Cypress"
29. Shelford, Victor E. (1963). "The Ecology of North America"
30. Snook, Sidney (1953). "Reelfoot—a Strange Spot" American Forests
31. Spears, Raymond (1910). "The New Madrid Earthquake Country" Americana
32. Stearns, R. G., E. W. Blythe and M. L. Hoyal (1989). "Guidebook of Geology and Related History of the Chickasaw Bluffs and Mississippi River Valley...."
33. Usher, F. C. (1837). "On the Elevation of the Banks of the Mississippi in 1811"
34. Walker, Paul E. (1929). "Illustrated History of Reelfoot Lake"
35. Williams, John S. (1873). "Old Times in West Tennessee..." [eyewitness, Pierre Nichol]

30. Botkin, Benjamin Albert, ed. (1955). "The Legend of Reelfoot Lake", in A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore.
31. Creason, Joe (1971) "Indians' Reelfoot Legend Quakes with Hot Romance"
32. Donaldson, R. C. (1947). "Dawn of Reelfoot" debunks it in Lake County Banner
33. Federal Writer's Project (1939). "Tennessee: A Guide to the State"
34. Mayfield, George R. (1950). "Reelfoot Lake, the Problem Child of Tennessee"
35. Pearce, Helen Baker (1958). "Early History of Hopkins County"
36. Platt, Carolyn V. (1993, Sep-Oct). "Nightmare on the Mississippi...." Timeline
37. Purcell, Martha G. (1969). "Great Convulsions of Mother Earth….Formed Reelfoot Lake"
38. Sadler, Christine (1933). "Earthquake in 1811 Cause of Its Formation"–Nash. Banner
39. Stringfield, Wilhelmine F. (1969). "The Legend of Reelfoot Lake"—a poem
40. Viitanen, Wayne (1973a). "Folklore and Fakelore of an Earthquake"
41. Walker, Paul E. (1929). "Illustrated History of Reelfoot Lake"

1. Alexander, T. H. (1923). "Reelfoot Lake" "Nashville Tennessean" Sept 16, 1923
2. Donaldson, R. C. (1947). "Dawn of Reelfoot" Lake County Bygones, Lake County Banner
3. Federal Writer's Project (1939). "Tennessee: A Guide to the State"
4. Humphreys, Cecil C. (1938). The History of the Reelfoot Lake Region" maters thesis
5. Humphreys, Cecil C. (1960). "..Formation of Reelfoot Lake...Consequent..Problems"
6. Leonard, Lexie (1991). "Reelfoot Lake Treasures"
7. Lowe, Walter Edgar (1930). "History of Reelfoot Lake" –unpubl. masters thesis
8. Mayfield, George R. (1950). "Reelfoot Lake, the Problem Child of Tennessee"
9. McGill, J. T. & W. W. Craig (1933). "The Ownership of Reelfoot Lake"
10. Ross, Capt. Charles (1846). "Legend of the Memorable Earthquake of 1811"
11. Schuman, Marguerite (1985). "The First State University, A Walking Tour"
12. Vanderwood, Paul J. (1969). "Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake"

1. Anderson, David G. (1987). "Archaeological Survey along the Obion River"
2. Ashley, G. H. (1910). "Drainage Problems in Western Tennessee"
3. Bowen, Brian (1996). "Natural Areas Turn 25—Sunk Lake"
4. Culp, Frederick M. & R. E Ross (1961). "Gibson County Past and Present"
5. Mainfort, Robert C., Jr. (1994). "Archaeological Investigations…Obion River Drainage"
6. Morse, William C. (1941). "New Madrid Earthquake Craters"
7. Shankman, D. & S.A. Sampson (1991). "Channelization Effects on Obion R. Flooding"
8. Shelford, Victor E. (1963). "The Ecology of North America"
9. Tenn. State Planning Comm. (1936). "Obion River & Forked Deer River Watersheds"

Topography & Drainage

1. Adams, R. M. & W. M. Walker (1942). "Archaeological Surface Survey of NM County"
2. Bates, George A. (1880). "Archaeological Remains in Southeastern Missouri"
3. Beck, Lewis Caleb (1823). "Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri"
4. Big Lake Shooting Club (1903-05). "Fite et al.-vs-Harrison et al.", US Circuit Court
5. Bissell, J. W. (1884). "Sawing out the Channel Above Island Number Ten"
6. Braunm, Michael (1896). in Smyth-Davis, M., "History of Dunklin County, Missouri"
7. Bryan, Eliza (1816 & 1826). Letters to Lorenzo Dow in 1816 and 1826
8. Carter, Clarence Edwin, ed. (1949). "Territorial Papers of the United States", v. XIV, XV
9. Chapman, C. H. & L. O. Anderson (1955). "The Campbell Site..."
10. Cramer, Zadok (1814). "The Navigator" [8th edition; representing edit. 1-12]
11. Croswell, C. (1878). "Mound Explorations in Southeastern Missouri"
12. Dickinson, Samuel D. (1984). "Lake Mitchegamas and the St. Francis"
13. Dillard, A. N. (1869). D1, in Foster, J.W., "The Miss. Valley, Its Physical Geography"
14. Douglas, Robert Sidney (1912). "History of Southeast Missouri"–reprint, 1961
15. Dudley, Timothy (1859). "The Earthquake of 1811...." –James Ritchie's account–
16. Dunklin County (1895). "Dunklin County-Missouri-Scenery-Animals-etc" WHMC
17. Engelmann, George (1929). "George Engelmann: Man of Science" [1837]
18. Ellis, James F. (1929). "The Influence of Environment on the Settlement of Missouri"
19. Fischer, Karin J. & Schumm, S. A. (1993). "Geomorphic Evidence of Deformation..."
20. Fuller, Myron L. (1912). "The New Madrid Earthquake" USGS Bulletin 494
21. Glenn, L. C. (1906). Underground Waters of Tennessee and Kentucky...."
22. Graham, Richard (papers) (~1825). MO Hist. Soc.–Indian agent R. Graham’s papers
23. Humphreys, A. A. & H. L. Abbot (1861). "...Physics & Hydraulics of the Miss. River"
24. Kochtitzky, Otto (1931). "The Story of a Busy Life" —Ramfre Press
25. LeSieur, F. V. (Col.) ["A Creole"] (1893). "Early History...." from the NM Archive, MHS
26. Lesieur, Godfrey (1871). "Letter to Mr. Hager" in Switzler, Douglas, Campbell, etc.
27. Linn, Lewis F. (1837). letter in Wetmore, A. "Gazetteer of the State of Missouri"
28. Lyell, Sir Charles (1849). "A Second Visit to the United States..."
29. Marbut, C. F. (1902). "..Evolution of the Northern Part...Lowlands of SE Missouri"
30. Melish, John (1815). "A Military & Topographic Atlas of the United States…"
31. Morse, D. A. & P. A. Morse (1983). "Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley"
32. O'Brien, Michael J. (1994). "Cat Monsters & Head Pots" archaeology/Pemiscot Bayou
33. O’Sullivan & Morley (1854). "The Swamp Lands of SE Missouri" Iron Mnt. R-road
34. Rector, William (1820). Letter to Jenifer Sprigg, in Carter's Territorial Papers..., v. 15
35. Rector, William (1821). Letter to Josiah Meigs, in Carter's Territorial Papers..., v. 15
36. Ritchie, James (1859). informant to T. Dudley, Annual Rpt, Smithonian, 1858
37. Rozier, Firmin A. (1890). "Rozier's History of the Early Settlement of the Miss. Valley"
38. Russ, David (1982). "Style & Significance of Surface Deformation in the Vicinity..."
39. Rutherford, Henry & James Robertson (1785). Survey field notes in West Tenn.
40. Saucier, Roger T. (1990). "Towosahgy State Historic Site & Its Physical Environment"
41. Shepard, E. M. (1905). "The New Madrid Earthquake"
42. Shrum, Edison E. (1989). "The Real New Madrid Earthquakes"
43. Silliman, B. (1829). "...extract from the travel of Mr. Flint" — v.15 AJSA, cited by Lyell
44. Smyth-Davis, Mary F. (1896). "History of Dunklin County, Missouri"
45. Stearns, Richard G. (1979). "Recent Vertical Movement..." NUREG/CR-0874
46. Steckel, Phyllis J. (1992). SEMO Master's thesis—Big ditch profile in LRDD
47. Stewart, David & Ray Knox (1992). "Representative Earthq. Features in the NMSZ"
48. Stewart, David & Ray Knox (1993). "The Earthquake that Never Went Away"
49. Stewart, David & Ray Knox (1995). "The New Madrid Fault Finders Guide"
50. Stoddard, Amos (1812). "Sketches, Historical & Descriptive, of Louisiana"
51. Switzler, W. F. (1879). "Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri from 1541 to 1877"
52. Walker, W. M. & R. M. Adams (1946). "Excavations in the Matthews Site, New Madrid..."

1. Bowen, Brian (1996). "Natural Areas Turn 25—Sunk Lake"
2. Clark, Merriweather Lewis (1851). Letter to U.S. Geologist on SE Missouri drainage
3. U.S. Dept. Agriculture (1971). "Soil Survey Pemiscot County, Missouri"
4. U.S. Dept. Agriculture (1973). "Soil Survey of Obion County, Tennessee"
5. U.S. Dept. Agriculture (1977). "Soil Survey of New Madrid County, Missouri"

1. Guion, W. B. (1850). "Swamp Lands in Missouri and Arkansas" Report No. 108
2. Swanton, John R. (1939). "Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Comm."

 

Drainage District Projects — Arkansas & Missouri

3. Collins, C. E. (1922). "Arkansas, 'Wonder State", Acclaims 170,000-Acre Project"
4. Morgan, A. E. & O. G. Baxter (1911). "Report on the St. Francis Drainage Project"
5. Ogilvie, Leon Parker ( ). "Governmental Efforts at Reclamation in the SE Lowlands"

History, Religion, Recovery

1. Balesi, C. J. (1992). "The Time of the French in the Heart of N. Amer. (1673-1818)"
2. Carter, Clarence Edwin, ed. (1949). "Territorial Papers of the United States", v. XIV, XV
3. Caruso, John Anthony (1966). "The Mississippi Valley Frontier" age of French Explor.
4. Delanglez, Jean (1935). "The French Jesuits in Lower Louisiana (1700-1735)"
5. Drake, Daniel (1815). "Natural and Statistical View or Picture of Cincinnati"
6. Eckert, Allan W. (1967). "The Frontiersmen" 1755-1836 Tecumseh & S. Kenton
7. Goodwin, Cardinal L. (1919). "Early Explorations & Settlements...Missouri & Arkansas"
8. Hildreth, Samuel Prescott (1848). "Pioneer History" Ohio River valley & NW Terr.
9. Howe, Henry (1851). "Historical Collections of the Great West"
10. Hunt, Gaillard, ed. (1904). "The Writings of James Madison"
11. McMurtrie, Henry (1819). "Sketches of Louisville..." —has Jared Brooks appendix
12. Perkins, James H. (1846). "Annals of the West" [contains Hildreth account]
13. Perrin, W. H., J. H. Battle & G. C. Kniffen (1886). "Kentucky. A History of the State..."
14. Reps, John (1969). "Town Planning in Frontier America" —not useful—
15. Rozier, Firmin A. (1890). "Rozier's History of the Early Settlement of the Miss. Valley"
16. Sanford, Charles L. (ed.) (1964). "Quest for America, 1810-1824"
17. Snyder, G. S. (1970). "In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark" National Geographic
18. Stewart, David & Ray Knox (1995). "The Earthquake that America Forgot"
19. Thwaites, Reuben Gold (1904). "Early Western Travels...."
20. Turner, W. (1990). "The War of 1812: The War that Both Sides Won"
21. Van Every, Dale (1964). "The Final Challenge, The American Frontier, 1804-1845"
22. Van Tramp, John C. (1866). "Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures..."
23. Williams, John S. (1842-43). "American Pioneer…."

1. Coleman, Roger E. (1987). "The Arkansas Post Story"
2. Edrington, Mable Flannigan (1962). "History of Mississippi County, Arkansas"
3. Halliburton, William Henry (1903). "…Topographical…History…Arkansas County…"
4. Holder, Virgil H. (1968). "Historical Geography of the Lower White River"
5. Holweck, (Father) — (n.d.). "The Arkansas Mission under Rosati" STL Cath. Hist Rev.
6. Marshall, Thomas Maitland (1926). "The Life and Papers of Frederick Bates"
7. Rafferty, Milton D. (1996). "Rude Pursuits & Rugged Peaks: Scoolcraft’s Ozark Jour."
8. White, Lonnie J. (?pre-1980). "Dividing Missouri: The Creation of Arkansas Territory"

1. Casseday, Ben (1852). "History of Louisville from Earliest Settlement until…1852"
2. Collins, Lewis (1848). "Historical Sketches of Kentucky"
3. Purcell, Martha Grassham (c 1915). "Stories of Old Kentucky"
4. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1885). "Kentucky"

1. Claiborne, John F. H. (1880). "Mississippi as a Province, Territory and State"
2. Claiborne, William C. C. (1917). "Official Letter Books, 1801-1816"
3. Daniels, Jonathan W. (1962). "The Devil’s Backbone: The Story of the Natchez Trace"
4. Davis, William C. (1995). "A Way through the Wilderness"
5. Matthias, Virginia Park (1945). "Natchez-under-the-Hill as It Developed…."
6. Moore, Edith Wyatt (1958). "Natchez Under-the-Hill"

1. Crockett, David (1834). "Narrative of the Life of David Crockett..."
2. Culp, Frederick M. & R. E Ross (1961). "Gibson County Past and Present"
3. Donaldson, R. C. (1934-60). "The R. C. Donaldson Papers, 1934-1960" MVC
4. Donaldson, R. C. (1956). "Editor of Unpubl. Diaries of Council Peacock & M. Griffith"
5. Glass, P. T. (1900). "Sketch of Henry Rutherford"(info on early surveys)
6. Goodspeed Publishing Co. (1887). "History of Tennessee from Earliest Times..."
7. Lyman Draper Collection (——). papers of Lyman Draper, 1815-1891
8. Magness, Perre (n.d.) "Past Times" —selected columns from Commercial Appeal
9. Marshall, Edwin Hill (1941). "History of Obion County"
10. Morris, Eastin (1834). "Tennessee Gazetteer or Topographical Dictionary"
11. Nash, Charles H. (1960). "The Human Continuum of Shelby County, Tennessee"
12. Reps, John W. (1994). "Cities of the Mississippi" (folio, 19th cent. paintings-Memphis)
13. Roper, James E. (1970). "The Founding of Memphis, 1818-1820"
14. Roper, James E. (1971). "The Earliest Pictures of Memphis: Charles Lesueur..."
15. Roper, James E. (1980). "Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas: Where was it, Exactly?"
16. Vaughan, Virginia C. (1983). "Tennessee County History Series: Weakley County"
17. Wells, Ann Harwell (1976). "Early Maps of Tennessee, 1794-1799"
18. Williams, Joseph S. (1873). "Old Times in West Tennessee..." [eyewitn., Pierre Nichol]
19. Williams, Samuel Cole (1930). "Beginnings of West Tenn....Land of the Chickasaw"

1. Brown, S. (1906). "Old Kaskaskia Days and Ways" — Kaskaskia, IL

1. Beck, Lewis Caleb (1823). "Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri"
2. Boyd, J. N. (1878). "History of Livingston County, Missouri"
3. Bryan, Wm. S. & Robert Rose (1876). "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri"
4. Campbell, Robert A. (ed.) (1874). "Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri...."
5. Carr, Lucien (1888). "American Commonwealths; Missouri, a Bone of Contention"
6. Dames & Moore ( ). PSAR for the Callaway County, MO, Nuclear Power Plant
7. Douglas, Robert Sidney (1912). "History of Southeast Missouri"–reprint, 1961
8. Foley, "William E. (1971). "A History of Missouri, Vol. 1: 1673-1820"
9. Garrett, Jasamyn (1961, "Bountiful Bootheel Borning" [in verse]
10. Gilbert, Joan (1996). "The Trail of Tears across Missouri"
11. Goodspeed Publishing Co. (1888). "History of Southeast Missouri" Chicago
12. Goodwin, Cardinal L. (1919). "Early Explorations & Settlements...Missouri & Arkansas"
13. Holcombe, R. K. (1979). "History of Marion County (reprint of 1884 edition)
14. Houck, Louis (1908). "A History of Missouri from the Earliest Exploration...."
15. Houck, Louis (1909). "The Spanish Régimé in Missouri"
16. "Hunt's Minutes" (1825) Spanish land grant claims comm. recorder Theodore Hunt
17. Litz, Arthur (1967). "Spanish Land Grants and New Madrid Certificate Problems in Mo."
18. McReynolds, __ (1962). "Missouri: A History of the Crossroads State"
19. Miller, Miss Hunter (1948). "Historical New Madrid County: Mother of SE Missouri"
20. Musick, John R. (1897). "Stories of Missouri"[mainly a rehash of Flint]
21. Pemiscot County (~1936). "Historical Sketch of Pemiscot County" WHMC file
22. Penick, James Lal (1981). "The New Madrid Earthquakes" –also a 1976 edition
23. Powell, B. F. (1975). "History of Mississippi County, Missouri, Beginning thru 1972"
24. Rafferty, Milton D. (1982). "Historical Atlas of Missouri"
25. Rafferty, Milton D. (1983). "Missouri—A Geography" [hist. geography; chpt 3 only]
26. Rafferty, Milton D. (1996). "Rude Pursuits & Rugged Peaks: Scoolcraft’s Ozark Jour."
27. Ramsey, Robert L. (1952). "Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names"
28. Robins, Ruby Matson (?pre-1980). "Ownership of Land…France, Spain, U.S."
29. Shoemaker, Floyd C. (ed.) (1943). "Missouri and Missourians…"
30. Shoemaker, Floyd C. (1955). "New Madrid, Mother of Southeast Missouri"
31. Shrum, E. E. & M. Mates (1980). "The Slaves & Slave Owners of Cape Girardeau Cty."
32. Smyth-Davis, Mary F. (1896). "History of Dunklin County, Missouri"
33. Switzler, W. F. (1879). "Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri from 1541 to 1877"
34. Thilenius, J. E. et al. (1975). "Biography of Historic Cape Girardeau County"
35. Trexler, Harrison A. (1938). "Missouri in the Old Geographies" MO Hist. Rev.
36. Viles, Jonas (1908). on the Archives of Missouri, Ann. Rpt. Amer. Hist. Assn.
37. Viles, Jonas (1910-1911). "Population & Extent of Settlement in Missouri before 1804"
38. White, Lonnie J. (?pre-1980). "Dividing Missouri: The Creation of Arkansas Territory"
39. Williams, & Shoemaker, F. C. (1930). "Missouri, Mother of the West" 5 vols.
40. Wood, W. Raymond (1982). "William Clark’s Mapping in Missouri, 1803-1804" MHR
41. WPA Historical Records Survey, New Madrid County (1935-44).
42. WPA Historical Records Survey, Dunklin County (1935-44).
43. Writer's Program, WPA (1941). "Missouri, A Guide to the 'Show Me' State"

1. Bardstown letter (The) (n.d.). "For the Bards Town Repository" –a citizen of Kentucky
2. Bernard, S. & J. S. Totten (1824?). "Report of the Board of Engineers on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers" House Ex. Doc. 35, 17 Congr.
3. Bolles, Gen. John A. (1871). "Earthquake Law," Harper's New Monthly Magazine
4. Cheves, Landon & John Gaillard (1815). "An Act for the Relief..." orig. congress. bill
5. Clark, William (1814, Jan. 12). Pamplet of letter requesting aid because of NM eqs.
6. Litz, Arthur (1967). "Spanish Land Grants and New Madrid Certificate Problems in Mo."
7. "Missouriana" (1937). Missouri Historical Review, v. 31, p. 200.
8. Parks, E. Taylor (July 1962). "Foreign Aid—150 Years Ago" Caracas earthquake aid
9. Rector, William (1821). Letter to Josiah Meigs, in Carter's Territorial Papers..., v. 15
10. Scott, John (1815?). Letter to Josiah Meigs, in Carter's Territorial Papers..., v. 15
11. Shoemaker, Floyd C. (1955). "New Madrid, Mother of Southeast Missouri"
12. U.S. Statutes at Large (1815). "An Act for the Relief of the Inhabitants of the Late County of New Madrid, in the Missouri Territory Who Suffered by Earthquakes"
13. Watson, Robert Goah (1855). "Memoir" [Douglas] & "Early New Madrid History" [WHMC]
14. Webb, Joseph (1936). "A Reminder of the Earthquake of 1811" [letter to De Witt Clinton]

1. Cartwright, Peter (1856). "Autobiography of Peter Cartwright"
2. Crockett, David (1834). "Narrative of the Life of David Crockett..."
3. Glass, P. T. (1900). "Sketch of Henry Rutherford"(info on early surveys)
4. Herrick, F. N. (1917). "Audubon – The Naturalist"
5. James, James Alton (1928). "The Life of George Rogers Clark"
6. Kirkpatrick, J. E. (1911). "Timothy Flint, Pioneer, Missionary, Author, Editor...."
7. Marshall, Thomas Maitland (1926). "The Life and Papers of Frederick Bates"
8. Lewis, Arthur A., et al. (1958). "History of the Lewis Family—1635-1958"
9. Osborn, C. S. & S. Osborn (1942). "Schoolcraft, Longfellow, Hiawatha"
10. Thompson, Wilson (1867). "The Autobiography of Elder Wilson Thompson..."
11. Tucker, Glenn (1956). "Tecumseh: Vision of Glory"
12. Walker, John Hardeman (1931). "John Hardeman Walker—Cattle King" M. Kelly, au.

1. Clark, Charles E. (1965). "Science, Reason, & an Angry God...Literature of an Eq"
2. Clark, Elmer Talmage (1912). "One Hundred Years of New Madrid Methodism...."
3. Davidson, Robert (1847). "History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of Kentucky"
4. Finley, James B. (1854). "Autobiography of James B. Finley...."
5. Holweck, (Father) — (n.d.). "The Arkansas Mission under Rosati" STL Cath. Hist Rev.
6. Jewell, Horace (1892). "History of Methodism in Arkansas"
7. Johnson, Charles A. (1955). "The Frontier Camp Meeting"
8. Lafferty, Maude Ward (1939). "The Lure of Kentucky" –"earthquake Christians"
9. Louisiana Gazette, St. Louis ( 7 Mar. 1812). Invocation, in The Earthquake
10. Panoplist (The) and Missionary Magazine (1812). "Earthquakes"
11. Posey, Walter Brownlow (1931). "The Earthquake of 1811 and Its Influence on Evangelistic Methods in the Churches of the Old South"
12. Posey, Walter Brownlow (1957). "The Baptist Church in the Lower Mississippi Valley.."
13. Posey, Walter Brownlow ( ). "Development of Methodism in the Old Southwest"
14. Rothensteiner, (Msgr) John E. (1939). "Historical Sketch of Catholic New Madrid"
15. Sweet, William Warren (1920). "The Rise of Methodism in the West"
16. Sweet, William Warren (1936). "Religion on the American Frontier. The Presbyterians..."
17. Watkins, Samuel W. (1992). "The Causes and Cures of Earthquakes: Methodists and the New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812"

Native Americans

1. Douglas, Robert Sidney (1912). "History of Southeast Missouri"–reprint, 1961
2. Drinnon, Richard (1972). "White Savage" –see J. Hunter's "Memoirs of a Captivity.."
3. Gilbert, Joan (1996). "The Trail of Tears across Missouri"
4. Graham, Richard (papers) (~1825). MO Hist. Soc.–Indian agent R. Graham’s papers
5. Hunter, John Dunn (1973). "Memories of a Captivity Among the Indians of N. Amer."
6. James, Edwin (1823). "Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mnts"
7. Jewell, Horace (1892). "History of Methodism in Arkansas"
8. Mooney, James (1896). "The Ghost-Dance Religion & the Sioux Outbreak of 1890"
9. Mooney, James (1972) "Myths of the Cherokee & Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees"
10. Nash, Charles H. (1960). "The Human Continuum of Shelby County, Tennessee"
11. Powell, Christine (1999). detailed account of 1811-12 eqs from Carolina Indians
12. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1885). "Kentucky"
13. Switzler, W. F. (1879). "Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri from 1541 to 1877"
14. Williams, Joseph S. (1873). "Old Times in West Tennessee..." [eyewitn., Pierre Nichol]
15. WPA Historical Records Survey, New Madrid County (1935-44).
16. WPA Historical Records Survey, Dunklin County (1935-44).

1. Adams, R. M. & W. M. Walker (1942). "Archaeological Surface Survey of NM County"
2. Bartholomew, David (1996). "Earthquake Preserved Native American History"
3. Bates, George A. (1880). "Archaeological Remains in Southeastern Missouri"
4. Chapman, C. H. & L. O. Anderson (1955). "The Campbell Site..."
5. Croswell, C. (1878). "Mound Explorations in Southeastern Missouri"
6. Mainfort, Robert C., Jr. (1994). "Archaeological Investigations…Obion River Drainage"
7. Morse, D. A. & P. A. Morse (1983). "Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley"
8. O'Brien, Michael J. (1994). "Cat Monsters and Head Pots" archaeology/Pemiscot Bayou
9. Saucier, Roger T. (1990). "Towosahgy State Historic Site & Its Physical Environment"
10. Walker, W. M. & R. M. Adams (1946). "Excavations in the Matthews Site, New Madrid..."

6. Dean, Lewis, S. (1994). "Tecumseh's Prophecy: The...New Madrid Eqs. in Alabama"

3. Drake, Benjamin (1852). "Life of Tecumseh"

4. Eckert, Allan W. (1967). "The Frontiersmen" 1755-1836 Tecumseh & S. Kenton

8. Tucker, Glenn (1956). "Tecumseh: Vision of Glory"

Reference Works

1. Andrews, Allen (1963). "Earthquake" —good pre-plate tectonic summary/reference
2. Arksey, L., N. Pries & M. Reed (1983). "American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliogr. .."
3. Audubon, John James (1830). "The Birds of America"
4. Audubon, John James (1848). "The Favorite Animals of America"
5. Britannica, 3rd edition (1798). "Encyclopaedia...." First American Edition
6. Brunvand, Jan Harold (1968). "The Study of American Folklore"
7. Dewey, James & Perry Byerly (1969). "The Early History of Seismometry (to 1906)"
8. Heck, H. N. (1938). "Earthquake History of the United States, Part I…."
9. Heck, Nicholar Hunter (1965). "Earthquakes" —for pre-plate-tectonics summ./ref.
10. Leach, Maria (1949). "Funk & Wagnalls Stand. Dictionary of Folklore, Mythol. & Legend"
11. National Academy of Sciences [Anonymous ] (1969). "Seismology: Responsibilities and Requirements of a Growing Science"
12. Rusk, Ralph (1926). "The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier"
13. Stickney, M.C. & R. Musselman (1993). "Earthquakes: History...in Montana"
14. Surrey, N. M. Miller (1926, 1928). "Calendar of Manuscripts in Paris Archives relating to the History of the Mississippi Valley to 1803"
15. U.S. Census (1811). "Aggregate Amount of Persons Within the U.S. in the Year 1810"
16. Winther, Osborn & R. A. Van Orman (1967). "A Classified Bibliography of the Periodical Literature of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1811-1957"

10. Goetzmann, W.H. & G. Williams (1992). "Atlas of North American Exploration"
11. Reed, Susan M. (1915). "British Cartography of the Miss. Valley in the 18th Century"
12. Ristow, Walter W. (1985). "American Maps and Mapmakers"
13. Wheat, Carl I. (1957-1963). "Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540–1861"

15. Bragg, Marion (1977). "Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River"
16. Davis, William C. (1995). "A Way through the Wilderness"
17. Fuller, Myron L. (1912). "The New Madrid Earthquake" USGS Bulletin 494
18. Penick, James Lal (1981). "The New Madrid Earthquakes" –also a 1976 edition
19. Ross, Margaret (1968), "The New Madrid Earthquake" Ark. Hist. Quarterly
20. Stewart, David & Ray Knox (1995). "The Earthquake that America Forgot"
21. Street, R. & O. Nuttli (1984). "The Central Miss. Valley Earthquakes of 1811-1812"
22. Viitanen, Wayne (1972). "The Winter the Mississippi Ran Backwards..." PhD dissert.
23. Western Historical Manuscript Collection (1995). index of eq-related files

Fiction and folklore

1. Baugher, Ruby Dell (1944). "The Wedgewood Pitcher"
2. Drake, Julia A. (1956). "Red Glory"
3. Dupré, Louis J. (1881). "Fagots from the Campfire"
4. Hall, Eliza Calvert (1916). "Clover and Blue Grass"
5. Hudson, Arthur Palmer (1947). "A Ballad of the New Madrid Earthquake"
6. Giles, Janice Holt (1957). "The Believers"
7. Kroll, Harry Harrison (1945). "Fury in the Earth. A Novel of the New Madrid Earthquake"
8. Paulding, James Kirk (1832). "Westward Ho! A Tale"
9. Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1820). "Transallegania, or The Groans of Missouri"
10. Van Every, Dale (1953). "The Trembling Earth"
11. Ravenswaay, Charles van (1841-1990). papers, Coll. #3873, West. His. Ms. Coll.
12. Woodbridge, Hensley C. (1958). "The Kentucky Novel, 1956-57"

1. Botkin, Benjamin Albert, ed. (1955). "A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore"
2. Brunvand, Jan Harold (1968). "The Study of American Folklore"
3. Howse, Ruth Whitener (1947). "Folk Music of West Tennessee"
4. Leach, Maria (1949). "Funk & Wagnalls Stand. Dictionary of Folklore, Mythol. & Legend"
5. Woodbridge, Hensley C. (1957). "Folklore in the Works of Janice Holt Giles"

Other Notable Physical Phenomena

1. Begley, S. & T. Gideonse (1997). "When the Comet Flew through Ancient Evenings"
2. Drake, Daniel (1815). "Natural and Statistical View or Picture of Cincinnati"
3. Farrar, J. & Bowditch, N. (1815). "Observations of the Comet of 1811" & "Elements.."
4. Kaplan, David A. (1997). "The Return of the Great Comet" —Newsweek
5. Pusey, William Allen (1930). "The New Madrid Earthquake—An Unpublished Contemporaneous Account" Science; see Brown, William
6. Willey, Susan (1984). "Mississippi Reversed" account of Looe Baker (Natchez)

1. Bradley, R.S. & P.D. Jones, ed. (1992). "Climate since A.D. 1500"
2. Brinkman, G. (1986). "The Year without a Summer" –Republic (Mo) Times Shopper
3. Brooks, Jared, Appendix in McMurtrie (1819) "Sketches of Louisville & its Environs"
4. deMenocal, Peter & Gerard Bond (1998). "Holocene Climate Less Stable...."
5. Grove, Jean M. (1988). "The Little Ice Age"Methuen, London
6. Guillou-Frottier, L., et al. (1998). "Ground Surface Temperature History…." JGR
7. Jacoby, Gordon C. et al. (1996). "Mongolian Tree Rings and 20th-Century Warming"
8. Overpeck, J. et al. (1997). "Arctic Environmental Change of the Last 4 Centuries" Sci.
9. Pringle, Heather (1997). "Death in Norse Greenland" — little ice age

1. Bagur, Jacques (1996). "The Caddo Lake Manuscript"[RR & C]
2. Beck, Lewis Caleb (1823). "Gazetteer..Illinois & Missouri" –p.320, St Francis R.[SF]
3. Bringier, Louis (1821). "Notices of the Geology, Mineralogy, Topography...."[RR]
4. Caldwell, Norman W. (1941). "The Red River Raft" Chronicles of Oklahaoma[RR]
5. Flint, Timothy (1826). "Recollections of the Last Ten Years"[RR]
6. Graham, Richard (papers) (~1825). MO Hist. Soc.–Indian agent’s papers[SF]
7. Hunter, Louis C. (1949). "Steamboats on the Western Rivers"[RR]
8. Linn, Lewis F. (1837). letter in Wetmore, A. "Gazetteer of the State of Missouri"[R]
9. Shepard, E. M. (1905). "The New Madrid Earthquake" Caddo L. & eqs.[C]
10. Vaughan, Virginia C. (1983). "Tennessee County History Series: Weakley County"[O]
11. Watson, Chester C. (1982). "An Assessment of the Lower..." Atchafalaya log raft[R]

Maps

1. Bradley, Abraham (Map, 1796). "Map of the United States, Exhibiting the Post Roads…"
2. Collot, Victor (Map, 1796). "Map of the Course of the Mississippi...."
3. Colton, George W. (Map, 1874). "Colton's Map of the State of Tennessee"
4. Colton, J. H. (Map, 1855b). "Colton's Kentucky and Tennessee"
5. Cumings, Samuel (Map, 1822). "The Western Navigator..." 1st edition of "..Pilot"
6. Cumings, Samuel (Maps, 1825; 1841; 1847). "The Western Pilot..."
7. D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (Map, 1746). "Amérique Septentrionale"
8. D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (Map, 1752). "Carte de la Louisiane"
9. Delisle, Guillaume (Map, 1703). "Carte de Mexique et de la Floride"
10. Delisle, Guillaume (Map, 1718). "Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi"
11. Elliot, D. O. (Map, 1932). "Improvement of Lower Miss River..." –3 vols., plus ~5 maps
12. Finiels, Nicolas de (1797 & 1798). "Carte d'une partie du cours du Mississippi..."
13. Guernsey & Alden (Map,1862). "Course of the Mississippi from Cairo to the Gulf"
14. Homann, Johanne-Baptist (Map, c 1730). "Amplissimae Regionis Mississippi...."
15. Humphreys & Abbot (Map, 1861). "Map of the Alluvial Region of the Mississippi River"
16. Hutchins, Thomas (Map, 1778). "A New Map of the Western Parts of Virginia, Penn-sylvania, Maryland & North Carolina..." [accomp. Topographic Description}
17. Jadwin, Edgar (Maj. Gen.) (Map, 1927). "The Alluvial Valley of the Mississippi River..."
18. Joutel, Henri (Map, 1713). "Carte Nouvelle de la Louisiane et de le Riviere Missisipi…"
19. Le Page du Pratz (Map, 1757). "A Map of Louisiana….Course of the Mississippi..."
20. Long, Stephen H. (Maj.) (Map, 1822). "Country Drained by the Mississippi..."
21. Lucas, E. Ward(?) (Map, 1903). "Map of 1st & 2nd Eng'r. Districts of the Mississippi R..."
22. Mandeville, Marigny de (Map, 1763). "Carte Composée des Differents Ouvrages...."
23. Marquette, Father (Map, ca 1673). "Facsimile …Map of Mississippi or Conception R."
24. Mississippi River Commission (Maps, 1882–1916). "Mississippi River" map series
25. Mississippi River Commission (Maps, 1938). "Lower Mississippi River Early Stream Channels at Approximate Half-Century Intervals"
26. Mitchell, John (Map, 1755). "A Map of the British Colonies in North America...."
27. Pike, Zebulon (Map, ~1807). "…Captⁿ. Pike’s Chart of the Internal Part of Louisiana"
28. Pittman, Capt. Philip (Map, 1770). "A Draught of the River Missisippi..."
29. Ross, John [Lieut.] (Map, 1765). "Course of the River Mississippi...." [publ. 1775]
30. Safford, J. M. (Map, 1869). "State Geologic Map" in Geology of Tennessee
31. Schultz, Christian (Map, 1810a). "A Map of the Mississippi River.." in Travels...1807-08.
32. Schultz, Christian (Map, 1810b). "A Map of the United States including Louisiana"
33. Suter, Charles R. (Map, 1874). "Map of a Reconnaissance of the Mississippi River"
34. U. S. Army (Map, 1861-1865). "General Topographic Map Sheet XVIII" -part of an Atlas
35. Williams, Wellington (Map, 1849). "Map of the Miss. R. from St. Louis to the Gulf of M."
36. Young, Poussin & Tuttle (Map, 1821). "Reconnaissance. of the Mississippi& Ohio Riv."

1. Beck, Lewis Caleb (Map, 1823a). "Map of the States of Illinois and Missouri"
2. Bouchon, — (Map, 1825). "Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Territoire D'Arkansas", J. Carez, printer (in French)
3. Cary, John (Map, 1811). "A New Map of Part of the United States of North America…"
4. Cary, John (Map, 1821). "A New Map of the U.S. of A. from the Latest Authorities"
5. Clark, Merriweather Lewis (Map, 1849). "Diagram of the State of Missouri"
6. Colton, George W. (Map, 1874). "Colton's Map of the State of Tennessee"
7. Colton, J. H. (Map, 1852). "Map of Missouri" — from E. E. Shrum (1989), p. 81
8. Colton, J. H. (Map, 1855a). "Missouri"
9. Debrett, J. (Map, 1795). "A Map of the Western Part of the Territories belonging to USA"
10. Fuller, Myron L. (Map, 1912). "Map of Earthq. Features of the NM District", Bull. 494
11. Humphreys & Abbot (Map, 1861). "Map of the Alluvial Region of the Mississippi River"
12. Hutawa, Edward (Map. 1844). "Sectional Map of the State of Missouri"
13. Kochtitzky, Otto (Map, 1903). "Map of the Lowlands of Southeast Missouri"
14. Lesieur, Godfrey (Map, 1836). "Lesieur’s Map" from Linn (1836) in Wetmore (1837)
15. Long, Stephen H. (Maj.) (Map, 1822). "Country Drained by the Mississippi..."
16. Map–Missouri Bootheel (Map, ca 1840). "SE Part of Cape Giradeau [sic] Land Dist…"
17. Mayo, George U. (Map, 1886). "State of Arkansas" — Dept. of Int., General Land Off.
18. Melish, John (Map, 1813). "A Map of the Southern Section of the United States"
19. Melish, John (Map, 1816-1826). "Map of the United States w/Contiguous British & …"
20. Melish, John (Map, ca 1822). "United States"
21. Mississippi River Commission (Maps, 1885; 1916). Index Charts..Miss. Riv. Series
22. Mississippi River Commission (Map, 1903). "Map of the Saint Francis Basin…"
23. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway (Map, 1906). "Geographically Correct Map of the Territory Traversed by the…Railway"
24. Pike, Zebulon (Map, ~1807). "…Captⁿ. Pike’s Chart of the Internal Part of Louisiana"
25. Roester, C. (Map, 1878). "State of Missouri" — Dept. of Interior, General Land Off.
26. Rozier, Fermin A. (Map, 1845). Rozier’s map of the "Submerged Lands of Missouri"
27. Southeast Missouri Reg. Plan. & Economic Develop. Comm. (Map, 1975). History and Travel Guide to Southeast Missouri Region"
28. Shrum, Edison E. (Map, 1989). "1828 Map of Southeast Missouri", p. 139.
29. Winslow, Arthur (Map, 1892). "Geological Map of the State of Missouri"
30. Woodbridge, William C. (Map, 1821). "United States"

1. Bissell, J. W. [Col. USA] (Map, 1862). "Bissell's Map of Madrid Bend...Canal Cut"
2. Colton, George W. (Map, 1874). "Colton's Map of the State of Tennessee"
3. Elliot, D. O. (Map, 1932). "Improvement of Lower Miss River..." –3 vols., plus ~5 maps
4. Finiels, Nicolas de (1797 & 1798). "Carte d'une partie du cours du Mississippi..."
5. Grey, A. B. [Capt. CSA] (Map, 1862). "Map of Military & Navel Operations....Isl. No. 10"
6. Henderson, William T. (Map, 1820). "A Map of...Kentucky Lying West of the Tenn. R."
7. Hoelcke, William (Capt.) (Map, ~1862). "...Rebel Fortifications...Island No. 10..N. Mad. "
8. Lee, Edward F. (Map, 1851). "New Map of Kentucky...." [3 of 10 sheets total]
9. Marr, G. W. L. (Map, 1821). "Survey of Island #10 for G. W. L. Marr"
10. Mississippi River Commission (Map, 1879-80, 1913). KY bend w/courses to 1913
11. Mississippi River Commission (Maps, 1882–1916). "Mississippi River" map series
12. Mississippi River Commission (Map, 1890; 1902). KY bend with "caved areas"
13. Mississippi River Commission (Maps, 1938). "Lower Mississippi River Early Stream Channels at Approximate Half-Century Intervals"
14. Rhea, Matthew (Map, 1832). "Map of the State of Tennessee Taken from Survey"
15. Safford, J. M. (Map, 1869). "State Geologic Map" in Geology of Tennessee
16. Smith, Gene (Genl.?) D. (Map, 1795). A Map of the Tennessee Government...."
17. Smith (?) (Map, 1857). "1857 Copy of County Survey Dated 1847" Isl. No. 10-D. pt.
18. Smith (?) (Map, 1862). "Route of the Carondelet" Island No. 10-Donaldson Point
19. Suter, Charles R. (Map, 1874). "Map of a Reconnaissance of the Mississippi River"
20. Young, Poussin & Tuttle (Map, 1821). "Reconnaissance. of the Mississippi& Ohio Riv."

1. Colton, George W. (Map, 1874). "Colton's Map of the State of Tennessee"
2. Colton, J. H. (Map, 1855b). "Colton's Kentucky and Tennessee"
3. Fuller, Myron L. (Map, 1912). "Map of Earthq. Features of the NM District", Bull. 494
4. Lucas, F., Jr. (Map, 1824). Map of Tennessee, Baltimore —no other info—
5. Map #396 (Map, 1824). "Map of the 13^th District, State of Tennessee" TN St. Archives
6. Map #1022 (Map, 1836). "Map of Dyer County [TN]", Tennessee State Archives
7. Map #1182 (Map, 1836). Map of Obion County, Tennessee. TN State Archives
8. Mitchell, S. Augustus (Map, 1867). "County Map of Kentucky and Tennessee"
9. Rhea, Matthew (Map, 1832). "Map of the State of Tennessee Taken from Survey"
10. Russell, J. (Map, 1794). "Map of the State of Kentucky with the Adjoining Territories"
11. Safford, J. M. (Map, 1869). "State Geologic Map" in Geology of Tennessee
12. Smith, Genl. D. (Map, 1795). A Map of the Tennessee Government...."

1. Amoureux, Michael (Maps, 1806). "Book of Records of Surveys...District of New Madrid"
2. Bock, Riley (Map, n. d.). Map of the town of New Madrid, 1791-present
3. LeVasseur, Charles (Map, 1904). "Map New Madrid, Mo. Showing Effective Revetment"
4. Plat of New Madrid ["Nouvelle Madrid"] (Map, 1794, April). Missouri Historical Soc.
5. Plat of New Madrid [and its environs] (Map, 1797, January). Missouri Historical Soc.
6. Plat of New Madrid (Map, 1810). "Plat of the Town of New Madrid, Louisiana, 1810"
7. Plat of New Madrid (Map, 1845 & 1857). "Survey of Old Town of New Madrid..."
8. Plat of the Village of Little Prairie… (Map, 1806). –from Amoureux (1806)

1. British Museum (Map, ca 1828). "Sketch of the 11^th District of the State of Tennessee"
2. Pike, Zebulon M.(Map, 1807). "A Map of the Internal Provinces of New Spain"

Special Interest Sites

1. Coleman, Roger E. (1987). "The Arkansas Post Story"
2. Halliburton, William Henry (1903). "…Topographical…History…Arkansas County…"
3. Holweck, (Father) — (n.d.). "The Arkansas Mission under Rosati" STL Cath. Hist Rev.

also Flint/Audubon/Nuttall