I. Eliza Bryan's letters: 1816, 1826, and the C. Wallace version

1. *Dow, Lorenzo (1848). "The History of a Cosmopolite...."1816 letter
2. Featherstone, Graden (n.d.). "Eyewitness Accounts ...."1816 letter
3. Garrett, W. B. (1900). "The Earthquakes of 1811" 1816 letter
4. Goodspeed Publishing Co. (1888). "History of SE Missouri," p. 304-3061816 letter
5. Hudson, Arthur Palmer (1947). "A Ballad of the New Madrid Earthquake"1816 letter
6. Missouri Historical Review (1925). Vol. 19, no. 3 (leaves out much)1816 letter
7. Mueller, Myrl Rhine (1990). "Lost in the Annals...." p. 63-661816 letter
8. Purcell, Martha G. (1969). "Great Convulsions of Mother Earth…."1816 letter
9. Ross, Margaret (1968), "The New Madrid Earthquake" (partial quote)1816 letter
10. Spears, Raymond (1910). "The New Madrid Earthquake Country" 1816 letter

—refers to EB as "Elizabeth Brown"; says Dow "rewrote" her letter

11. Walker, Paul E. (1929). "Illustrated History of Reelfoot Lake"1816 letter

6. Marshall, Edwin Hill (1941). "History of Obion County" 1826 letter

2. Missouri Historical Review (1930). reprint of St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1826 letter

3. *St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1929). Nov. 4 issue, from a Hickman letter 1826 letter

—also has a version of the J. Hardeman Walker/Frenchman story—

1. *Wallace, Carolyn (1990). The Sikeston MO Standard-Democrat ? letter date ?

—originally in the Bloomfield Vindicator (1920)—

III. Wrong Date

1. Berry, Daniel (1908). "The Illinois Earthquake of 1811 and 1812"—eyewitness Y. Land

p. 75 "At the time of the earthquake, in November, 1811…"

2. Halstead, Murat (1902). "The World on Fire...."

IV. Descriptions of New Madrid

2. Bedinger, Daniel (1812). "Earthquake on the Mississippi" National Intelligencer

place little improved."

4. Foreman, Samuel S. (1888). "Narrative of Journey down Ohio & Miss. R." (1790)

7. Pope, John (1792). "A Tour through the Western Territories of the U.S. …" [1791]

V. The Comet

1. Ambler, Charles Henry (1932). "A History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley"

p. 107 "…the splendid comet of the year long shed its twilight over the forests…"

B7. Bradbury, John (1817). "Travels in the Interior of America..." Univ. Microfilms, Inc.

"One of the men...entered into an explanation of the cause (of the earthquake), and attributed it to the comet...which he described as having two horns, over one of which the earth had rolled, and was now lodged betwixt them..."

3. Drake, Daniel (1815). "Natural and Statistical View or Picture of Cincinnati"

"The comet became visable on the 5th of September, 1811"

9. Haywood, John (1823). "The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee...."

(p. 29) "They [the earthquakes] began just about the time the comet disappeared"

(pp. 369-373: the comet theory of earthquakes) "First, that electrical fluid is drawn from the sun, communicatted to the comet and then to the earth; secondly, that earthquakes follow uniformly [by igniting of all the combustible material at depth by the comet's 'electrical fluid' and hence causing cavities, which collapse in earthquakes]; thirdly, that pestilence follow; fouthly, that old springs burst out; fifthly, that there is more water than before; sixthly, that the atmosphere is more healthy than before." There follows a long list of earthquakes following comet appearences (incl. Jamaica and Lisbon). "In 1811, earthquakes followed the appearance of the comet in the latter part of that year."

2. Latrobe, J. H. B. (1871). "The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters"

"...there were those who insisted that the comet of 1811 had fallen into the Ohio and had produced the hubbub!"

11. Latrobe, Charles Joseph (1835). "The Rambler in North America" pp. 101-102

"The comet had disappeared about this time (when first saw banks caving in), which circumstance was noticed with awe by the crew."

20. Lloyd, James T. (1856). "Lloyd's Steamboat Directory & Disasters on the Western..."

"The second steamboat of the West was a diminutive vessel called the 'Comet'....She went to Louisville in the summer of 1813 and descended to New Orleans in the spring of 1814."

21. Pierce, William Leigh (1812). "An Account of the Great Earthquakes..."

D1 Isl.#20, below LP "the stars were encircled with a pale light, and the comet appeared hazy and dim"

7. Platt, Carolyn V. (1993, Sep-Oct). "Nightmare on the Mississippi...." Timeline

6. Posey, Walter Brownlow (1957). "The Baptist Church in the Lower Mississippi Valley.."

G p. 56-57 "The comet of 1811 was first discovered from Viviers, France, in March, 1811, and last seen in Russia in August 1812....it shown very conspicuously with a bright nucleus and tail...the extreme length of its tail was more than one hundred million miles, and its breadth was about fifteen million miles." [see p. 57 for 3 references for this comet]

6. Ross, James (1882). "The Life and Times of Elder Reuben Ross" Clarksville, D1

D1 Clarksville TN "...the great comet of 1811 made its appearance at this time. It was a splendid affair; having a tail long enough, it was said, to have coiled roung our planet five thousand times; a comet of tremendous magnitude." "....taught to look upon comets as harbingers of impending calamity...to add to our misfortunes still further, the northern lights were particularly showy and beautiful this season."

VI. The Chickasaw Bluffs & Obion River/Lake

1. Berry, Daniel (1908). "The Illinois Earthquake of 1811 and 1812"

p. 78. mention of Obion Lake "…many square miles of heavily timbered highland sank in western Tennessee where Obion and Reelfoot lakes are now."

3. Culp, Frederick M. & R. E Ross (1961). "Gibson County Past and Present"

p. 223-24. "…Goodspeed’s ‘History of Tennessee,’ says on page 831: ‘The

however, never been utilized for navigation,…" Culp says it has

3. Hutchins, Thomas (1784). "...Description of Louisiana and West-Florida...." [1765]

p. 57. "This river [the Chickasaw (Obion) river] may be ascended during high floods upwards of 30 miles with boats of several tons burthen."

10. Glass, P. T. (1900). "Sketch of Henry Rutherford" (info on early surveys)

– brief description of early surveys around Obion River (1785); says Reelfoot wasn't there; no mention of log raft at mouth of the Obion.

1. Kroll, Harry Harrison (1919-1965). Mississippi Valley Collection Papers

p. 263, Note on Sources, in "Fury in the Earth". Describes exploring deep fissures in "the hills back of Dyersburg". Says trees would not grow in the fissures (sand?)

15. Montulé, Edouard de (1821; 1950). "Travels in America, 1816-1817"

p. 108. "We had 150 miles to travel [from B. Foy's house, opposite Memphis] without finding a single house, and stopped on the 2nd [June, 1817] in the entrance to a bayou which the Mississipi, in receding, has left clogged with a surprising number of tree trunks, some of them measuring over six feet in diameter. This mass of ruins, whose disorder has been further increased by an earthquake, looks everywhere like a battlefield covered with débris."

4. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway (Map, 1906). "Geographically Correct Map of the Territory Traversed by the…Railway"

– clearly shows Lake Obion, in the style of Rhea (1832) –

1. Saucier, R. T. (1987). "Geomorph Interpretations of Late Quat. Terraces...W. Tenn."

12. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1869). "Earthquakes of the Western United States"

12. Rodbell, Donald T. (1996). "...Fluvial Terrace Deposits in NW Tenn." [Obion River]

10. Vaughan, Virginia C. (1983). "Tennessee County History Series: Weakley County"

p. 38 –first settlers had to come overland over the Tenn. River; could not use

the Cumberland-Ohio-Mississippi-Obion River route because "…the mouth

of the river [Obion] was choked by immense piles of logs and driftwood….

very little was done toward improving the Obion until 1840."

10. Williams, Joseph S. (1873). "Old Times in West Tennessee..."

– describes the "Cole Creek Bluffs" ("Cold Creek" on 15’ quads) from Key Corner on the Forked Deer SW for 15 Miles to 1^st Chickasaw Bluff as "the famed hunting ground" of Davy Crockett before the "rents and cracks produced by the shakes of 1811-12 had all healed over." Also describes the Cole Creek bottomlands between the bluffs and the Miss. River as "the land of many newly made lakes." p. 214 speaks of "sunk lakes."

VII. Arkansas Post

2. Coleman, Roger E. (1987). "The Arkansas Post Story"

7. Holweck, (Father) — (n.d.). "The Arkansas Mission under Rosati" STL Cath. Hist Rev.

also Flint/Audubon/Nuttall

VIII. Fort Osage

1. Gillespie, M. L. (1992). "Fort Osage: A History of its First Occupation, 1808-1813"

IX. Caddo Lake

1. Bagur, Jacques (1996). "The Caddo Lake Manuscript" [RR & C]

X. Red River and other Log Rafts

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XI. Hudson's Bay Company

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XII. John Hardeman Walker's Reelfoot story

1. Featherstone, Graden (n.d.). "Eyewitness Accounts of the 1811-12 Earthquakes ...."
2. Leonard, Lexie (1991). "Reelfoot Lake Treasures"
3. Marshall, Edwin Hill (1941). "History of Obion County"
4. Ross, Capt. Charles (1846). "Legend of the Memorable Earthquake of 1811"
5. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1929). Nov. 4 issue; brief mention of seeing Reel. L. form
6. Viitanen
7. Wetmore
8. F.V. LeSieur