I.e. References to Acquire
Priority A | Priority B | Priority C | Priority D |Priority E

Last Update: April 2002
A. Highest priority –references are prioritized–
  1. Bryan, Eliza (n.d.) Journal

    2. • No. 1 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. It is not known that such a journal exists or even existed. But EB’s letter (Bryan, 1816) to Lorenzo Dow in Dow (1848) is the best single eyewitness account of the 1811-12 earthquakes and the effects of the principal events, D1, J1, F1. The letter, four years after F1, contains a high level of detail, suggesting it was written from notes rather than from memory as she states. Moreover, Flint (Flint, 1826, Recollections…) describes her as cultured and educated like her mother Dinah Grey (Martin).

  2. Lesieur, Godfrey (Map, 1836). "Lesieur’s Map" from Linn (1836) in Wetmore (1837)

    3. • No. 2 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. It refers to the map of the Bootheel/sunklands region prepared by Lesieur for Senator Lewis Linn for his report to the Committee on Commerce, 1 Feb 1836. Reference to the map is found in Linn (1836), reprinted in Wetmore (1837). This is probably the only map that could authoritatively show the St. Francis-Little River drainage basins and drainage pattern prior to 1811.

  3. Speed, Mathias[Matthias] (2 March 1812). "From the Bairdstown (Kentucky) Repository"

    4. • No. 3 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. This is the original publication of Matthais (or Mathais) Speed’s famous letter recounting his flatboat passage from Island No. 9 to New Madrid on the morning of 7 Feb 1812. Copies of the original Bardstown Repository report (2 March 1812) that have been obtained include: Pennsylvania Gazette (18 Mar 1812), Georgetown KY Telegraph (19 Mar 1812), Lexington Reporter (21 Mar 1812), and Cincinnati Western Spy (28 Mar 1812). See Bardstown Repository (1811-12) for the problems of availability of this source. Speed’s account is by far the most valuable for F1, but it is marred by a confusing, contradictory description of the location of the first waterfall/rapids he encountered after passing Island No. 10. If in the original Repository letter Speed used "island" in place of "town" in describing the encounter with the waterfall, it would clear everything up–unless Speed actually did write (mistakenly?) "town" in the first place.

  4. Le Sueur, Pierre-Charles (1694-1722). "Mémoires de Mr. Le Sueur" ASH*, Paris

    5. • No. 4 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. Le Sueur ascended the Mississippi River in 1700, one of the earliest Europeans to accomplish this feat, and returned in 1701. According to Delanglez (1943) "Sources of the Delisle map of America, 1703" pp. 291-293, his memoirs of this voyage with abstract notes by the senior Delisle (Claude) make up "one hundred closely written pages" that constitute "the first scientific survey of the Mississippi River from its mouth to the Falls of St. Anthony." Delanglez states that much French material on the early explorations of the Mississippi River was photographed or transcribed for the Library of Congress (in the 1930s?) but Le Seuer’s memoirs were overlooked. It is unclear if the manuscript has ever been transcribed, much less translated, in the 60 years elapsed since Delanglez’s investigations. [ASH: Archives du Service Hydrographique]

  5. Fort Pickering Log Book

    6. • No. 5 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. Another Ten Most Wanted for which its existence is in doubt. In 1811 the fort (at the 4th Chickasaw bluff, future site of Memphis) was still an active Indian trading post under factor Robert Bayly, but it is unclear if it was still an active post of the U.S. Army. It is also unclear if a search of the U.S. Archives for the log book has ever been made–or for that matter, if a fort log was ever kept at all.

  6. Powell, Christine (1999). detailed account of 1811-12 eqs from Carolina Indians

    7. • No. 6 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. A detailed account of the earthquakes of 1811-12 from the Carolina Indians. The ~20-page account is possibly from the N. C. State Archives. Christine Powell was given a copy by a friend but it was misplaced in the move to Memphis. The "Carolina Indians" are probably the Appalachian Cherokees. This is potentially the best source to document any landsliding that may have occurred in the Appalachians

  7. Harris, J. C. (n.d.). Written account of eyewitnesses

    8. • No. 7 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. Cited by Spears (1910) Americana, "The New Madrid Earthquake Country" p. 327. Harris was the land speculator who bought up most Reelfoot property and attempted to drain the lake with a canal about 1899. Spears states he "wrote from memory accounts by residents of the experiences in the tumujltous [sic] earthquake days of 1811-12." [Winfred Smith at UT Martin said (May, 1999) he had been unable to locate this source.]

  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. •No. 8 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. Penick ref. no. 18; not cited any other source. Penick in his Essay on Sources says this is a manuscript compiled by the DAR Lucy Jefferson Lewis Chapter (New Madrid) from the New Madrid archive in New Madrid county courthouse, and it is in the Missouri Historical Society Library, St. Louis. However, the MHS Library has no record of any such manuscript as identified. Mary Sue Anton (see Anton, 1994, "Pioneers of New Madrid, Missouri and their Descendants") has suggested that this manuscript is in actuality the manuscript from the MHS Library entered in the Compendium as LeSieur, F.V. (Col.) "A Creole" (n.d.) 44 pp., a possibility that may be very difficult to prove or disprove.

  9. Roosevelt, Nicholas (ca 1810). —report to Fulton on 1809 reconnaissance voyage

    10. • No. 9 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. Nicholas Roosevelt built the New Orleans, the first steamboat on the Ohio-Mississippi River, and took it from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in late 1811 during the D1 New Madrid earthquake sequence (see Latrobe, 1871, "First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters"). Prior to that he made a reconnaissance voyage in a flatboat in 1809 for his sponsor, Robert Fulton. His report to Fulton was a detailed account on the navigability of the rivers, one that Ambler (1932) "History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley" pp. 113, calls "an exhaustive and impressive report." The Compendium should have it. Possibly it’s with Fulton’s papers?

  10. Rozier, Fermin A. (Map, 1845). Rozier’s map of the "Submerged Lands of Missouri"

    11. • Tied for No. 10 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. This map was stated by Rozier (Rozier, 1890, p. 7) to have accompanied his report to the Southwest Convention of 1845 on land reclamation held in Memphis, Tennessee. It is almost certainly not the same Godfrey Lesieur map used by Sen. Lewis Linn (see Lesieur, 1836, and Ten Most Wanted No. 2) in his 1837 letter (Linn, 1837, in Wetmore, 1837). Rozier states that the map was "a topographical map of the submerged lands of South Missouri, which was approved by the Convention and attracted much attention." The Memphis Public Library has the reports of the convention but the map cannot be located.

  11. Graham, Richard (papers) (~1825). MO Hist. Soc.—Indian agent R. Graham’s papers

    12. • Tied for No. 10 on the Compendium’s Ten Most Wanted. Archived at the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis. Cited by Morrow (1980) "New Madrid and Its Hinterland" p. 248. A good number of Indians–mainly Creek, Delaware, Shawnee and perhaps Cherokee–had settled in the St. Francis River "hinterland" prior to and after the 1811-12 earthquakes. The story of the effect of the quakes on them has never been told; the Richard Graham papers hold the potential to provide perhaps the best first-hand information. Graham was superintendent of Indian Affairs, based in St Louis (?). Morrow cites numerous letters written to him in the 1820’s from New Madrid and Point Pleasant. One in particular could be a potentially important Compendium source: dated 29 January 1826, Samuel Hopkins wrote Graham a letter opposing a rumored government plan to move the Indians further west. In it Hopkins "described the 1811-12 earthquake damage to Graham."

  12. Robertson (sp?), Dr. (n.d.). Robertson’s list of 500 New Madrid earthquakes

    13. • Dr. Robertson was the government surveyor on the 1806 expedition to the sources of the Arkansas River. In 1811 he was living in St. Genevieve, south of St. Louis. Samuel Mitchill tells us (Mitchill, 1814, p. 302-303) that "he [Robertson] had kept a record…of the shocks…until they exceeded five hundred, and then ceased to note them any more because he became weary of the task." Shaler (1869) "Earthquakes of the Western United States" p 556, makes note of the same without reference to Mitchill. Robertson was prominent enough to have his papers preserved somewhere, but attempts to date to locate them have been unsuccessful.

  13. Joint Collection (Street & Nuttli, 1984). "Accounts of the 1811-1812 earthquakes..."

    14. • Could not be located under this name at Mo Hist. Soc. Library, St. Louis or WHMC, Columbia. However, The Joint Collection is the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, maintained jointly by the University of Missouri and the State Historical Society of Missouri. It is indexed at http://www.system.missouri.edu/whmc/ . The Joint Collection of Street & Nuttli (1984) is almost certainly the K. Baker scrapbooks [see Baker (1882-1934)].

  14. Bardstown (Bairdstown) KY Repository (1811-1812). original source newspaper

    15. • One of the Compendium’s "Ten Most Wanted." The original source for possibly a number of eyewitness accounts, but certainly so for Matthias Speed (see Speed, 2 Mar 1812). Problem is only a few scattered copies known to have survived, eg, Filson Club, U. KY, West. KY U., Antiquarian Soc.

  15. Bradford, T.G. (1817). "The Mississippi Navigator" revised & updated

    • Printed by T.G. Bradford, Philadelphia(?), 57 pp., 13 maps. Cited by Yost (1987) in his reprint of editions 3 & 4 of Zadok Cramer’s "Navigator". Calls it a "spurious" edition of Cramer; Howes M661 lists it as a "doubtful" edition. The Western Reserve Historical Association in Cleveland says they have a copy but would not photograph it for Yost. It could be a great addition for the Compendium because as the WRHA file card states: "The changes in the channel of the river, occasioned by the earthquakes and the current, are given here, by a gentleman who ascended the river a few months since." [underline added]

  16. Elliot, D. O. (Map, 1932). "Improvement of Lower Miss River..." —3 vols., plus ~5 maps

    17. • Full title: "The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood control and Navigation" U.S. Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg MS. Cited by Bragg (1977) "Historic Names and Places on the Lower Miss. Riv." The maps, as cited by Anthony (1987) "River at the Door," are "Progressive channel changes, lower Mississippi River, 1765 to 1930". These maps are large scale and full color; the channels depicted begin with Ross (Map, 1765) and end with various surveys of the Mississippi River Commission. A full set of them are needed for the Compendium.

  17. Ross, (Captain) Charles (1847). "The Earthquake of 1811 at New Madrid..."

    18. • Full title: "The Earthquake of 1811 at New Madrid and along the Mississippi Valley, together with Other Tales" entered by George Conclin, Cincinnati. Cited by Botkin (1955) "Treasurer of Mississippi River Folklore" p. 527. It appears this is not the same reference as Ross (1846) "Legend of the Memorable Earthquake of 1811" in Cumings (1847) "The Western Pilot". Believed to be a separate book or booklet, although containing the Ross (1846) Reelfoot hunting trip story. Title and page numbers are different. Not found in library searches or on the internet

  18. Book E — Office of Recorder of Land Titles (?date?). 2 old plats, Spanish New Madrid

    19. • "Note of Reference. For two old Spanish plats of the Town of New Madrid, see the record thereof of book # p. 149 and pages 265 & 266 in the Office of Recorder of land titles-" –Found on the 1862 revision of the Joseph C. Brown "Plat of the Town of New Madrid" (1845). Note is in handwriting of Wm Cuddy, Surveyor General, IL & Mo. [n.b. Ben Ashley, New Madrid County Recorder states that Book E is not in New Madrid County Courthouse; allowed it could be in St. Louis or Jefferson City or "Dept. of Interior" in Washington.]

  19. Hager, A. D. (1871?). report on New Madrid earthquakes, including G. Lesieur letter

    20.      • Hager was the Missouri state geologist who corresponded with Godfrey Lesieur, trying to learn all Lesieur could tell him about the 1811-12 earthquakes. (By the 1870s Lesieur was an old man; Hager was probably conducting an oral history project while it was still possible.) Lesieur (9 Mar 1872) reprints a letter to him from Hager in which the geologist ventures to "ask a few more questions…which you [Lesieur] may answer if you find time, and I will engraft them into your letter in the report [italics added]." There is not a known Hager report on the New Madrid earthquakes. If he did draft one, it possibly could contain the "Ten Most Wanted" Lesieur map (see Lesieur, 1836) as well as additional information from Lesieur not in extracted accounts such as the ones Penick cites in Campbell (1874) and Switzler (1879) or Fuller cites in Goodspeed (1888) or Viitanen cites in Douglass (1912).
  20. Humbolt, Alexander von (1849). "Cosmos" [probably just Volume 1]

    • Fuller ref. no. 28; Penick ref. no. 96. Translated by E.C. Otté, publ. by H.G. Bohm, London, 5 vols. Humbolt is frequently cited (e.g., Shrum, 1989) for observing that the 1811-12 sequence was one of the few instances of such a protracted sequence that was not associated with volcanoes. He was a highly respected and competent scientist of his day. His observations on earthquakes in general and New Madrid in particular should be highly relevant to the Compendium.

  21. Mandeville, Marigny de (Map, 1763). "Carte Composée des Differents Ouvrages...."

    22. • Full title: carte Composée des Differents ouvrages de Messieurs les Ingenieurs qui ont été á Louisiane. Two known copies, one at the Archives Hydrographiques in Paris, the other at the Clements Library, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. For the Clements copy, McDermott (1970) in his Introduction to Pittman (1770b) states no accession information is given, but it has a Brun no. 686 from Brun (1959) "Guide to the Manuscript Maps in the William L. Clements Library." This map is important because according to McDermott, Mandeville’s work was an important, unacknowledged resource used by both Lt. Ross and Capt. Pittman in drafting their key maps of the Mississippi River (Ross, 1765; Pittman, 1770). Mandeville’s map may be the best bridge between Delisle (1718) and Ross (1765).

  22. Mississippi River Comm. (Map, 1938). "Lower Mississippi River: Early Stream Channels…"

    23. • Cairo ILL. To Baton Rouge, LA at approx. half-century intervals. Series of at least 5 large map sheets showing the channels of the Mississippi River in the following time periods: (1) 1765, taken from Ross (1765) "Course of the Mississippi…", even though Ross’s map had very poor longitude control; (2) 1820-1830, from U.S. Land Office (Township & Range) surveys; (3) 1881-1893, Miss. River Commission surveys; (4) 1930-1932, Miss. River Comm. Surveys. These are handsomely produced full color maps. Obtained: copy of Sheet #2 of the Madrid bend region, but the color is not good. Need a set covering from Cairo to at least the mouth of the St. Francis for the Compendium.

  23. Cramer, Zadok (1802-1824). "The Navigator" 2nd edition (1802) through 12th (1824)

    24.  Fuller ref. no. 11 (11th edit.), Penick ref. no. 37 (8th edit.), Stewart & Knox ref. no. 24 (10th edit.), Viitanen ref. no. 58 (8th edit., from Leahy, 1931). Cramer’s river guides were indispensable to river travelers for the first two decades of the 19th century. He numbered the islands, and in the 8th (1814, but observations were from winter, 1812) edition, he offers acute observations on New Madrid and the effects of the 1811-12 earthquakes. For the Compendium we have obtained copies of the 3rd and 4th editions (from Yost, 1987), 6th (1808) from the Mississippi Valley Collection, Univ. of Memphis, and 8th (1814) from University Microfilms. Especially needed are the 5th edition (1806, the first to include river maps), and the 7th edition (1811). Cramer died in 1813 but his partners continued editions 9, 10, 11, and 12 (1817-1824). These need to be scanned to see if updates on river conditions continued. The maps were never changed from the 5th edition originals.

  24. Foster, __ (Dr.) (16 Jan 1812). "More of the Earthquake" 1 Farmer's Repository

    25. • Dr. Foster was the traveling companion of D1 Primary Eyewitness Daniel Bedinger. We only know his name because Bedinger mentions it; his own letters as extracted and published in various newspapers are always unsigned. The most complete account that we know of (Farmer’s Repository, 28 Feb 1812) has been transcribed by Street (1984) pp. A286-A292. Other known extracts thought to be by Dr. Foster are "The Earthquake" (Pittsburgh Gazette, 31 Jan 1812), transcribed in the Nuttli (1973) microfiche, and "The Earthquake" (Farmer’s Repository, 31 Jan 1812), transcribed in Street (1984) p. A284. Undoubtedly, there are other letters or manuscripts extant from this careful and prolific observer.

  25. Melish, John (Map, 1816-1826). "Map of the United States …"

    26. • Full title: "Map of the United States with Contiguous British & Spanish Possessions" No other publ./printing information available. Ristow (1985) in "American Maps and Mapmakers" pp 185-86, calls this map "a significant milestone in the history of American commercial cartography." It was issued in numerous states of the original 1816 edition. The fifth state (1818) was the official map used in the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 that set the boundary between the U.S. and Spanish territory. Five presidents (J. Adams, J.Q. Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe) owned copies. Rated Code A for its time period and importance. Compendium-quality copy needed. Nearly illegible photocopy from Ristow (1985) possibly shows two new Bootheel lakes and perhaps Reelfoot Lake.

  26. Wheat, Carl I. (1957-1963). "Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540—1861"

    27. • Inst. Of Hist. Cartography, 5 vols., Grabhorn Press, Taylor & Taylor, and the James Printing Co., printers, San Francisco. Describes over 1300 maps, 300 in facsimile. Regarded as the authoritative work on Mississippi Valley cartography; hence, it should prove a valuable cartography reference for the Compendium, Part III, Maps & Photos.

  27. Bratton, Samuel Tilden (1926). "The Geography of the St. Francis Basin"

    28. • Univ. of Missouri Studies: A Quarterly of Research, Vol. 1. Cited by Bennitt & Nagel (1933) "A Survey of Resident Game and Furbearers of Missouri". The St. Francis drainage basin is critical to the understanding of the deformation associated with the 1811-12 earthquakes.

  28. Finiels, Nicolas de (1797 & 1798). "Carte d'une Partie du Cours du Mississippi..."

    29. • Small, partially illegible, image from Ekberg & Foley, eds. (1989) "An Account of Upper Louisiana by Nicolas de Finiels" p. 23. The editors describe this map as "meticulous" and "undeniably the best ever done of the eighteenth-century Illinois Country [central Mississippi Valley]." It’s important to acquire for the Compendium because it extends south to fully include New Madrid and Madrid Bend in considerable detail. This map is the same date (late 1700s) as the Ellicott surveyed map of the Mississippi in Ellicott (1803) yet the configuration of Madrid Bend is quite different between the two maps. Why?

  29. Frazer, Robert (Map, 1807). hand-drawn map of Lewis & Clark Expedition

    30.      • Cited, with image from the Library of Congress, in Bourne (1995) "Americans on the Move" pp. 46-47. That’s all the information we have on this map. It appears to have good detail for the Mississippi River and Valley in the Compendium study region, specifically what appears to be a string of lakes for either the St. Francis or Prunes River.
  30. Hunter-Dawson Family Papers (1819— ). Archive in Mississippi Valley Collection

    31.      • Archived in the Mississippi Valley Collection (MVC) of the Univ. of Memphis libraries, 3 series, 9.75 cu. ft. From it have acquired a 2-page genealogy of the Hunter & Dawson families and a 2-page scope & content of the papers. Need to review the rest for (a) development of New Madrid, 1820-1870, and (b) any mention of Eliza Bryan or the earthquakes.
  31. Kroll, Harry Harrison (1919-1965). Mississippi Valley Collection Papers

    • Kroll’s papers (8 cartons, MVP 2008) are archived in the Mississippi Valley Collection (MVC) of the Univ. of Memphis Libraries. He was the author (Kroll, 1945) of "Fury in the Earth," a novel of the New Madrid earthquake. The collection need to be systematically searched for any source materials used. Kroll, from Dyersburg TN, mentions in a postscript to Fury (p. 264) "newspaper clippings, many very old, from papers in Obion, Weakley and other counties hereabouts…".

  32. Audubon, John James (1929). "Journal...Made during his Trip to New Orleans, 1820-21"

    33. • Cited by Bragg (1977) "Historic Names and Places on the LMR" and Allen (1990) "Western Rivermen". Would provide a circa 1820 Audubon viewpoint of the Arkansas Post, Memphis and perhaps New Madrid.

  33. Colton, J. H. (Map, 1852). "Map of Missouri" – from E. E. Shrum (1989), p. 81

    34. • Identified from the image between p. 81 & 82 of Shrum’s (1989) "The Real New Madrid Earthquake". This is a different, more detailed map of the Bootheel than the entire state maps of Colton from his General Atlases of the mid- to late-1850s (eg, Colton, 1855a). Shrum’s image does not give the map title but the caption gives an 1852 date and states that the original is in the collection of the State Historical Society of Missouri. The detail is admirable: the township grid is shown, swampland is delineated and differentiated from the "permanent" lakes such as L. Peimisco, L. Nicormy, L. St. Mary, L. St. John. Sikestown Ridge was surrounded by water

  34. Fisk, Harold N. (1944). "Geological Investigations of the Alluvial Valley..."

    35. • Stewart & Knox ref. no. 35. US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg. Have the full set of 22 of Fisk’s map of the former channels of the Mississippi River but needed is an original edition of the text with its many photos, charts and cross-sections. This was the classic study of the Lower Mississippi Valley until superceded by Saucier (1994).

  35. Bernard, S. & J. S. Totten (1824?). "Report of the Board of Engineers..."

    36. • Cited by Hunter (1949) "Steamboats on the Western Rivers" p. 193. This is the report to Congress that accompanied the Young, Poissin, Tuttle (1821) map folio.

  36. Campbell, Robert A. [ed.] (1874). "Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri...."

    • Penick ref. no. 16. Call no. F464.C18 1874. Early source for the Lesieur account. Contains secondary accounts from more recent sources. Has a companion atlas (Campbell, 1873). Need to scan the entire Gazetteer for relevant material.

  37. Warren, Gouverneur K. (Map, 1855). "Map of Routes for a Pacific Railroad"

    38. • Published in 1859 as part of Vol. II of the 13-volume Pacific Railroad Reports. The eastern portion of the map was compiled and engraved in 1854 (Wilford, 1981, "The Mapmakers"). Warren completed the entire General Map in 1857 so this reference may be for the eastern portion only. Wheat (1957-63) in "Mapping the Transmississippi West" declares of the General Map that "subsequent efforts in the way of maps may properly be deemed merely filling in the detail."

  38. Collot, Victor (1826). "A Journey in North America"

    39. • Penick ref. no. 118: also cited by Bragg (1977) "Historic Names & Places on the Lower Miss. River". A reprint edition (1974) is available from AMS Press, New York. Collot, an engineer, was one of these traveling "spies" that the European powers–in this case, France–sent to the Mississippi Valley in the 18th century. He did a fine map of New Madrid (Collot, 1796b) and provides a pre-earthquake view of Spanish New Madrid in 1796.

  39. Arkansas Gazette (1819-1836+) [Ark Post/Little Rock] Newspaper source index

    • Important source newspaper even though not in publication in 1811-12. Complete scan needed

  40. Aurora, The (1794-1820+) [weekly, Philadelphia] Newspaper source index

    41. • Important source newspaper for potential Compendium material. Complete scan needed

  41. Connecticut Mirror (1809-1820+) [Hartford, CT] Newspaper source index

    42. • Important source newspaper for potential Compendium material. Complete scan needed

  42. Farmer’s Repository (1808-1820+) [Charleston WV] Newspaper source index

    43. • Important source newspaper for potential Compendium material. Complete scan needed

  43. Lexington American Statesman (1811-1813) Newspaper source index

    44. • Important source newspaper for potential Compendium material. Complete scan needed

  44. Louisiana Gazette (1808-1812) [weekly, St. Louis] Newspaper source index

    45.      • Important source newspaper for potential Compendium material. Complete scan needed
  45. Northern Whig (1809-1820+) [weekly, Hudson, NY] Newspaper source index

    46. • Important source newspaper for potential Compendium material. Complete scan needed

  46. Pittsburgh Gazette (1786-1820+) [Pittsburgh PA] Newspaper source index

    47. • Important source newspaper for potential Compendium material. Complete scan needed

  47. Raleigh Register (1799-1820) Newspaper Source Index

    • Important source newspaper for potential Compendium material. Complete scan needed

B. Good probability of useful info
  1. Anton, Mary Sue Shy (1994). "Pioneers of New Madrid, Missouri, & their Descendants"
    2.

    • Spare Room Publ., Charlotte NC, 196 pp. A copy is in the Missouri Historical Society Library, St. Louis, call no. MO 9.11 N461a.

  2. Applegate, Col. & Dr. Brookway (n.d.). description of Mo. Bootheel region before 1811
    3.

    • Ref. by WPA-HRS (1935-42) section on Dunklin County. "East of Castor River and White Water or Little River, the country was described by Dr. Brookway through Col. Applegate as being before the earthquakes nearly level but not swampy, a beautiful country all the way to Point Pleasant…" No other information available. Perhaps to be found in the Joint Collection (WHMC, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia).

  3. Arksey, L., N. Pries & M. Reed (1983). "American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography"
    4.

    • Cited in Ebel (1996) SRL, v.67, no.3, 51-68. Describes all published American diaries, 1492-1844. A potentially important Compendium reference resource.

  4. Ashe, Thomas (1809). "Travels in America Performed in the Year 1806"
    5.

    • Penick ref. no.120; Stewart & Knox ref. no. 7. — Letters 34 through 39 have been obtained. Needed to complete: Introd., Letter 33 (mouth of Miss. Riv.), Letter 40 (New Madrid?) and the Appendix (by Z. Cramer?)

  5. Audubon, John James (1897). "Audubon and His Journals" [ed., Marie R. Audubon]
    6.

    • Fuller ref. no. 1, Street no. 2, Penick no. 22, & Viitanen no. 18. Street (1984), p. A129, transcribed Audubon’s description of experiencing a shock, Nov. 1812 (probably a mistake in date) — rest of the volume needs examining for the Compendium.

  6. Baldwin, Leland D. (1941). "The Keelboat Age on Western Waters"
    7.

    • Cited by Davis (1995) "A Way through the Wilderness" as stating that the number of boats or crews lost in D1 approached 60. F351.B18 in the Mississippi Valley Collection, U. Memphis,

  7. Balesi, C. J. (1992). "The Time of the French in the Heart of N. Amer. (1673-1818)"
    8.

    • Stewart & Knox ref. 12. Not cited, any other source.

  8. Bogardus, Carl (1961). "The First Steamboat on Western Waters" —J. Latrobe, edited
    9.

    • Voyage of the steamboat New Orleans. "Although Bogardus is given pride of place on the title-page this is principally a re-issue of Mr. Latrobe’s The First Steamboat Voyage…" Bogardus has added some material and a bibliography.

  9. Bossu, Jean-Bernard (1962). "Travels in the Interior of North America, 1751-1762"

    • Cited by Dickinson (1984) "Lake Mitchegamas and the St. Francis" For the pre-earthquake observer file. Available as v. 35 or the Amer. Exploration and Travel Series, ed. & trans. By S. Feiler (Norman OK), publ. In 1962.

  10. Bradford, T. G. (Map, 1838a). map of Missouri –Ogilvie (1970) ref.

     

    11. • Cited by Ogilvie (1970) "Governmental Efforts at Reclamation in the SE Lowlands" p. 155, 157. No title given but the small image on p. 157 of Ogilvie suggests it’s just the SE Missouri lowlands in considerable detail. That, plus the date make this a desirable map for the Compendium.
  11. Bradley, Abraham (Map, 1796). "Map of the United States, Exhibiting the Post Roads…"
    12.

    • Reference map from Ristow (1985) "American Maps & Mapmakers" p. 70. Bradley was assistant postmaster general so this map, with later editions through at least 1829, had claim to official status. Shows entire eastern U.S. so detail for lower Miss. Valley lacking. Nevertheless, according to Ristow "Bradley’s map differs significantly from those published earlier in that it was not copied in whole or in part from other cartographic works." It represents a clear break from European-dominated mapmaking.

  12. Braunm, Michael (n.d.). in WPA HRS for Dunklin County; also in Smyth-Davis (1896)
    13.

    • Folder 6944 of Collection 3551 in the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Historical Records Survey, Missouri, 1935-1942. We have the Primary Eyewitness Michael Braunm account [Braunm (1896)] published in Smyth-Davis (1896). However, it needs to be compared with this one-checked for changes.

  13. Burr, David H. (Map, 1839d). "Map of Illinois & Missouri Exhibiting the Post Offices…"
    14.

    • Washington DC. Burr was Geographer to the House of Representatives of the U.S. Already in the Compendium are "Map of Kentucky and Tennessee" (Burr, 1839b) and "Map of Mississippi, Louisiana & Arkansas" (Burr, 1839c); need Missouri and Illinois to complete the set of these fine, detailed maps.

  14. Caldwell, Norman W. (1941). "The Red River Raft" Chronicles of Oklahaoma [RR]
    15.

    • In Chronicles of Oklahoma, XIX, pp. 253-268. Cited by Hunter (1949) "Steamboats on the Western Rivers" p. 196. The Red River log raft is a Special Interest Topic because of the reports (myths) that Caddo Lake was formed by the 1811-12 earthquakes.

  15. Carter, Clarence E. (1953-54). "Territorial Papers of the U.S. — Arkansas, 1819-1836"
    16.

    • Viitanen ref. no. 87 & 89 for letters from William Rector and John Scott to Josiah Meigs. Similar to Carter (1948-49) except specifically for the Territory of Arkansas after Missouri became a state so it covers the period 1819 to 1836 in three volumes. Even though it doesn’t cover 1811-12, it needs to be reviewed for relevant Compendium material, especially dealing with the drainage problems in NE Arkansas.

  16. Cary, John (Map, 1811). "A New Map of Part of the United States of North America…"
    17.

    • "Exhibiting the Western Territory, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, etc." Code B because of the 1811 date.

  17. Casseday, Ben (1852). "History of Louisville from Earliest Settlement until…1852"
    18.

    • Fuller ref. no. 10; Penick ref. no. 29. Also cited in Krinitzsky (1950). Published in Louisville by Hull & Brothers. One of two source publications for the Jared Brooks record of New Madrid earthquakes, the other being an appendix to McMurtrie (1819) "Sketches of Louisville…" Needed for a careful comparison of Brooks in Casseday vs McMurtrie.

  18. Clark, Arthur H. (1904). unpaged Preface in Ruben Gold Thwaites (1904) vol. 5
    19.

    • Preface & pp. 201-208, 211 cited by Fradkin (1998) "Magnitude 8" source notes, p. 285. [n.b. Clark may be the publisher in which case this reference must be revised to R.G. Thwaites.]

  19. Cochran, K.J.H. (1992). "The World Discovered the Region in 1811" Allen Holloman
    20.

    • Stewart & Knox ref. no. 22. Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau newspaper, 5 Feb. 1992, p. 7A. Contains an eyewitness account [Allen Holloman] about premonitory animal behavior prior to D1.

  20. Conclin, George (1855). "Conclin’s New River Guide…"

    21. • One of several editions, 1840s & 1850s, these river guides were successors to the "Western Pilot" series of guides (Cumings, 1822-1847). In fact, Conclin was the publisher for Cumings, and he uses the same river maps as Cumings in his guide. These maps, although much superior to the crude woodcuts of Zadok Cramer (Cramer, ~1803 to ~1818) are still spatially quite distorted. Cramer to Cumings to Conclin, each with numerous editions, spans the river guide era from the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War.

  21. Crist, George Heinrich (1738— ). Crist Family Diary [D1,J1,F1, near Louisville KY]
    22.

    • Partially maintained by Virtual Times, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama, at http://www.hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd . Downloaded from the web for the Compendium but entire diary needs to be scanned for relevant material. Stewart & Knox (1995) quote portions of the diary (eg, p.136).

  22. Cumings, Samuel (Map, 1822). "The Western Navigator..." 1st edition

     

    23. • According to Ristow (1985) "American Maps and Mapmakers" p. 237, Cumings was the most successful river guide successor to Zadok Cramer. This first edition was in two volumes and expensive. Subsequent editions (Cumings, 1825-54) combined to one volume under the title "The Western Pilot". As with Cramer, the information content differed among the editions so all are needed for entry in the Compendium.
  23. Darby, William (1818). "The Emigrant's Guide to the Western and Southwestern States"
    24.

    • Penick ref. no. 123. Publ. By Kirk & Merclin, New York, 311 pp. Includes two maps. Reps (1965) "American Maps and Mapmakers" p. 484 quotes from page 141 of the Guide about New Madrid: "New Madrid has received a celebrity that must astonish those who ever visited the place in open day. The ground…is exposed to the ravages of…[the Mississippi]…to whose force it has, to a great measure, yielded. The town is environed, both above and below, with stagnant creeks."

  24. DePaepe, Duane (1980). "Mammoth Cave & the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812"
    25.

    • Cave Research Foundation Annual Report, vol. 33. Cited by George & O’Dell (1992) p. 15 as reporting rockfalls within the cave and surface rockfalls into nearby Green River.

  25. Dewey, James & Perry Byerly (1969). "The Early History of Seismometry (to 1906)"
    26.

    • BSSA, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 183-227. Makes mention of the Jared Brooks arrangement of pendulums, Wish to obtain a reprint copy for the Compendium."

  26. Dial, Marshall (n.d.). "An Era in Middle America" J. Clifton (1980) reference
    27.

    • Cited by Clifton (1980) "Reelfoot and the New Madrid Quake" p. 27. Clifton says it gives a historical background of New Madrid and the Bootheel. No date or publ. Info. Dial was the New Madrid County librarian.

  27. Dickson, Bruce D. & L.J. Campbell (1979). "Reelfoot & L. Isom Nat’l Wildlife Refuges"
    28.

    • A Cultural Resources Survey. New World Research Report of Investigations 20. Cited by Anderson (1987) "Archaeological Survey along the Obion River."

  28. Donaldson, L. (n.d.). "Old Timer’s Recollections"
    29.

    • Cited by Peacock (1973) "Reelfoot Lake State Park" p. 218 for information concerning the old Indian trail from the Reelfoot bluffs up into Madrid bend across from New Madrid. No date given. Donaldson was Lake County, Tenn.’s earliest local historian This may have been a column in the Lake County Banner, much like his son, R.C. Donaldson, did in the 1940s with his Lake County Bygones column (see, eg, Donaldson, 1947a).

  29. Donaldson, R. C. (1934-60). "The R. C. Donaldson Papers, 1934-1960" MVC
    30.

    • Cited by Mueller (1990) "Lost in the Annals" as an authority on west Tennessee history and Indian pre-history, especially the Reelfoot/Tiptonville area. Papers are housed in the Mississippi Valley Collection, Univ. of Memphis.

  30. Donaldson, R. C. (1956). "Editor of Unpubl. Diaries of Council Peacock & M. Griffith"
    31.

    • Lake County Banner (Tiptonville, TN), July 1956. Cited by Mueller (1990) "Lost in the Annals." It’s unclear if this newspaper article is about Donaldson, the local historian, or about the Peacock/Griffith diaries.

  31. Evans, Estwick (1819). "A Pedestrious Tour, of 4000 miles, .... the Western States..."
    32.

    • Penick ref. no. 55. Joseph C. Spear Publ., Concord, N.H. Full title: "A Pedestrious Tour, of Four Thousand Miles, through the Western States and Territories during the Winter and Spring of 1818." Post-Earthquake Observer; Penick says it’s "full of colorful details."

  32. Farrar, J. & Bowditch, N. (1815). "Observations of the Comet of 1811" & "Elements.."
    33.

    • Penick ref. no. 60. Actually two articles on the Comet of 1811: John Farrar ("Observations of the Comet of 1811") and Nathaniel Bowditch ("Elements of the Orbit of the Comet of 1811"), both in Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 3 (1815), pp. 308-326.

  33. Featherstone, Graden (n.d.). "Eyewitness Accounts of the 1811-12 Earthquakes..."
    34.

    • The full title may have been: "Eyewitness Accounts of the 1811-12 Earthquakes that Formed Reelfoot Lake." A poor copy of six pages (pages 4-9) of this typeset manuscript was found in an old notebook at CERI. Who copied it and who filed it is unknown. The material (the 1816 Eliza Bryan letter, a brief bio of Eliza and her descendants, and the John Hardeman Walker Reelfoot account) appears to be taken directly from the LeSieur "Early History" manuscript (LeSieur, 1893) in the Missouri Historical Society library, St. Louis. Stamped on several pages of the manuscript is "Graden Featherstone, PO Box 223, McKenzie, TN 38201." Inquiries to this address are unanswered. A full copy of this enigmatic source is needed for the Compendium.

  34. Fetherstonhaugh (1835) report to Congress

    35.      • Cited by Bek (1929) in "George Engelmann, Man of Science." According to Bek, Fetherstonhaugh was a geologist who was "directed by the federal government to travel thru Missouri and Arkansas to study the new country. He made his report to Congress in 1835." No other information available.
  35. Finley, A. (Map, 1824). map of Missouri
    36.

    • Cited by Ogilvie (1970) "Gov. Efforts at Reclamation in the SE Lowlands" p. 155, without title or publ. info. From his description of the map showing "the area [SE MO] as one of swampland with many large lakes" the map may just be of the Bootheel area. Because of this and the early post-earthquake date, a relatively high Code B is assigned for Compendium acquisition.

  36. Flint, Timothy (1828). "The History and Geography of the Mississippi Valley"
    37.

    • Fuller ref. no 16; Penick ref. no. 57; Viitanen ref. no. 63. E.H. Flint & L.R. Lincoln, Cincinnati. Two volumes, 2nd and 3rd editions in 1832 & 1833. For the 1811-12 earthquakes this gives the same account as the widely quoted Flint (1826) "Recollections of the Last Ten Years." Other useful information on the history and geography of the Lower Mississippi Valley is scattered through the rest of the text.

  37. Franquelin, Jean-Baptiste Louis (Map, 1684?). "Map of the Northern Part of America"
    38.

    • This map is a blanket-size parchment, which Havighurst (1964) in Voices on the River calls the "greatest of all the maps of New France." A small image of the map from the National Archives of Canada shows it would be a good starter map (after Marquette, 1673) for showing the evolution of knowledge of the course of the Mississippi over time. Hopefully there is a good quality reproduction somewhere that can be obtained.

  38. Goodspeed Publishing Co. (1887). "History of Tennessee from Earliest Times..."
    39.

    • Nashville, 1087 pp. There may be a separate edition(s) for west Tennessee counties.

  39. Grohskopf, J. G. (1955) "Subsurface Geology of the Miss. Embayment of SE Mo."
    40.

    • Stewart & Knox ref. no. 44. Missouri Geol Surv. & Water Resources, vol. 37. One of the most important and frequently cited early studies of the Mississippi embayment sedimentary composition and structure.

  40. Heidenreich, C.A. & E.H. Dahl (1982). "The French Mapping of North Amer., 1600-1760"
    41.

    • A potentially good reference for the early French mapping of the North American interior. Originally published in The Map Collector as "The French Mapping of North America in the 17th Century" (issue 13, Dec. 1980, pp. 2-11) and "The French Mapping of North America, 1700-1760" (issue 19, Jun., 1982, pp. 2-7). Reprinted with additions by Abacus Press, Berkhamsted, England, Sep. 1982)

  41. Hennepin, Louis (1683 Fr.; 1698 Eng.). "A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America"
    42.

    • French edition, Paris, 1683; English edition, London, 1698; also reprinted by Univ. Microfilms, Ann Arbor (1966), transl. By John Gilmary Shea, 407 pp. Despite major flaws, Hennepin represents one of the earliest sources for a description of the Mississippi River and Valley.

  42. Herrick, F. N. (1917). "Audubon — The Naturalist"
    43.

    • D. Appleton & Co., 280 pp. Cited by Street (1984) p. A129. Herrick says that "Audubon was notoriously poor in keeping his dates straight" to explain why Audubon, in his journal Audubon (1897), states that he was "[t]raveling through the Barrens of Kentucky…in the month of November" when he experienced an earthquake [thought to be J1, 23 January 1812, event , the only principal event during daylight].

  43. Hobbs, William Herbert (1907a). "Earthquakes, An Introduction to Seismic Geology"
    44.

    • Cited by Moneymaker (1954) "Earthquakes in Tennessee" Desirable to scan for any New Madrid material and to sample an early instrumental era viewpoint.

  44. Hunt, Theodore (1825) "Hunt's Minutes": Spanish land grant claims testimony
    45.

    • Hunt’s Minutes are defined in Houck (1908) vol. III, pp. 50-51 as the minutes of Theodore Hunt, recorder of land titles for Missouri, from testimony given before him from 1825 to 1829 by persons who needed to prove the authenticity of their land titles, which were originally land grants from the Spanish regime prior to 1802. A literal copy with index of the Minutes by Idress Head was presented to the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, by Louis Houck. A copy of the New Madrid region testimony (pp. 144-153) in the Minutes has been obtained. Still needed is a copy of the index of the entire Minutes as well as any testimony from the Little Prairie and Cape Girardeau regions.

  45. Hunter, S.B. & M. Hunter (2nd ed., 1997). "The Joseph Hunter & Related Families…"
    46.

    • Full title: "The Joseph Hunter & Related Families of Southeast Missouri". The 2nd edition is edited by B.B. Moore, publ. in 2 vols. By Southern Historical Press. Recommended by Mary Sue Anton (see Anton, 1994) as containing much useful information about early New Madrid.

  46. James, Edwin (1823). "Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mnts"

    47.      • Fuller ref. no. 29; Penick ref. no. 33; Viitanen ref. no. 33. Fuller references the original edition that has "…under the Command of Maj. Stephen H. Long" in the title, Philadelphia, 2 vols. and says Edwin "describes the effects of the earthquake on Indians of the upper Missouri country and gives an account of one of the later shocks at Cape Girardeau. The nonvolcanic origin of the shocks is affirmed." Penick references a University Microfilms (Ann Arbor) reprint of the original; Viitanen references the Thwaites (1904) reprint (Early Western Travels, vol. XV, Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland) with "…Performed in the Years 1819, 1820" added to the title. There is at least one other (abridged) reprint edition by the Imprint Society, Barre Mass., 547 pp. We have copies of the pages that covers the points referenced by Fuller; need to review the rest for any relevant Compendium material, especially descriptions of the Lower Mississippi Valley, which the expedition passed through on return from the Arkansas River.

  47. Ker, Henry (1816). "Travels through the Western Interior of the U.S. …1808 to 1816"
    48.

    • Printed for the author, Elizabethtown NJ, 376 pp. Potential Pre-(or Post?) Earthquake Observer. Cited by Peck (1843) "Descriptive Catalog…" who says a segment of his travel was down the Tennessee to the Ohio and Mississippi and thence to New Orleans.

  48. Kochtitzky, Otto (1931). "The Story of a Busy Life" –Ramfre Press
    49.

    • 1957 edition, Ramfre Press, Cape Girardeau MO, 172 pp. Kochtitzky was a principal participant in massive drainage project that established the Little River Drainage District in the Missouri Bootheel in the first decades of the 20th century. Already obtained a copy of Chpt 3 "New Madrid Earthquake." Need to scan the rest of the book, particularly the last three chapters, for relevant Compendium material.

  49. Latrobe, Charles Joseph (1835). "The Rambler in North America"
    50.

    • Fuller ref. no. 30; Penick ref. no. 41; Viitanen ref. no. 29; Street ref. no. 13. R.B. Seeley & W. Burnside, Publ., London, 2 vols. C. Latrobe’s of the voyage of the steamboat New Orleans down the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers during the 1811-12 earthquakes is widely quoted, along with J.H.B. Latrobe (1871) "First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters." The section of the Rambler dealing with the New Orleans and the New Madrid earthquakes has been obtained (pp. 98-111); however, the rest of the book needs to be reviewed for relevant Compendium material, particularly covering when Latrobe was on the river Mississippi.

  50. Lee, Edmund F. (1835). "Notes on Mammoth Cave" rockfalls on Green River, KY

    51. • Cincinnati, p. 10(?); reprinted in Journal of Spelean History, vol. 2 (Spring, 1969) p. 29(?). Lee was the civil engineer who did the first transit survey of Mammoth Cave. As cited in George & O’Dell (1992) "Saltpeter Works at Mammoth Cave & the New Madrid Earthquakes" p. 14, Lee observed that "[l]arge rocks sometimes become detached from the cliffs and tumble into the river with a tremendous noise, crashing every thing before them. During the earthquake of 1811 so many fell, as materially to impede the navigation of the river." Green River KY is ~300 km from the NMSZ..

  51. LeSieur, Godfrey (1867-1870). series of articles in the New Madrid Weekly Record

    52. • Godfrey LeSieur is one of the most oft-quoted Primary Eyewitnesses of the New Madrid earthquakes. Problems arise, however, in evaluating LeSieur’s observations. He was 13 years old in 1811 but his main recollections weren’t recorded until he was in his 70s. The original and best LeSieur sources are also obscure as he wrote mainly in letters or old newspaper columns (see LeSieur, 1874-1912, for a selection of extracts). This reference to LeSieur (1867-1870) comes from The New Madrid Weekly Record (Chartier, 1881), which stated that LeSieur had penned a number of "interesting articles" that appeared in that paper in 1867-68-69 & 70. The trouble is all the old copies of the Record were destroyed by a fire in the Spring of 1881. Hence these earliest writings of LeSieur may never be found; however, LeSieur (8 & 9 March 1872) in the St. Louis Republican may be the same material. The Godfrey LeSieur Papers (1806-1851) in the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, although predating all the above, need to be carefully reviewed. This source is only rated Code B because of the likelihood that the St. Louis Republican articles are simply a reprinting of the Record’s originals.

  52. Lewis, Henry (1967). "The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated"

    53.      • Viitanen ref. no. 81. Original issued in Germany between 1854 & 1857 as Das Illustrirte Mississippithal; few copies survive Reissued by the Minnesota Historical Society (1967), transl. By A.H. Postgieler, B.L. Heibron, edit., 423 pp., 78 full color plates. Lewis traveled the river, 1846-48; one of his paintings, "View of New Madrid Missouri" is one of only two known views of pre-Civil War New Madrid (the other is a sketch by Frenchman Charles LeSueur in 1826).
  53. Library of Congress (1764). "Journal…Proceedings of 22nd Regiment up MR in 1764"
    54.

    • Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress. Cited by McDermott, edit. (1977) in Pittman (1770a) p. 113. This journal would describe the voyage of the regiment of Capt. Philip Pittman of the British Army from New Orleans to Ft. Chartes in Illinois. It was from this voyage that Pittman composed his "Draught of the River Missisippi…" (Pittman, map, 1770). This journal has good potential for early, pre-earthquake, pre-New Madrid descriptions of the river and the Lower Mississippi Valley. Cannot find it via electronic searches of the Library of Congress online manuscript database.

  54. Little, George (1883). "Report on the Blue Clay of the Mississippi River"
    55.

    • As cited by Glen (1906) "Underground Waters Of TN & KY…": Report, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey for 1880, 1882, App. 12, pp. 145-171, pl. 48; Rept., Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army for 1883, part 3, pp. 2315-23330. This report is of interest because "tertiary blue clay" in the Mississippi riverbed has been interpreted (e.g., Boyd & Schumm, 1995) as an indicator of faulting.

  55. Louisiana Gazette, St. Louis (29 Feb 1812) Cape Girardeau J1, F1 effects
    56.

    • Fuller ref. no. 34. Letter from Cape Girardeau describing the effects of J1 (23 Jan 1812) and F1 (07 Feb 1812) in that town. Street (1984), p. A24, transcribes this letter and assigns MMI VII-VIII for J1 and MMI VIII for F1 in Cape Girardeau. A copy of the original in the Louisiana Gazette is needed for the Compendium.

  56. Lucas, F., Jr. (Map, 1824). map of Tennessee
    57.

    • Baltimore. No other information available. Poor copy obtained from the frontpiece of Culp & Ross (1961) "Gibson County Past and Present." Compendium-quality copy needed. This must be one of the earliest maps to show Reelfoot Lake–shown with the ubiquitous "Wood Lake" name.

  57. Lyman Draper Collection (––). papers of Lyman Copeland Draper, 1815-1891
    58.

    • Lyman Draper traveled throughout the "West" (Ohio & Mississippi Valleys), 1830s-1850s; collected oral histories, tombstone inscriptions, etc. Was to do a ‘life’s work’ book on the pioneers–never did. His entire papers are with the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, but microfilm copies are available elsewhere (for one, Memphis Public Library). The Collection needs to be reviewed for relevant Compendium material. For example, the valuable account of Primary Eyewitness Col. John Shaw (Shaw, 1856) is from the Draper Collection, but would it have been widely known and cited had it not been reprinted in the Missouri Historical Review (Shaw, 1912)?

  58. McBride, James (1910). "Brief Accounts of Journies in the Western Country, 1809-1812"
    59.

    • Penick ref. no. 20; Viitanen ref. no. 33. Appeared in Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, vol. 5, pp. 27-31. McBride came down the Mississippi in March of 1812. He was unable to land his flatboat at New Madrid because of unstable banks, but his detailed observations of evidence of upstream current above New Madrid, the dramatic liquefaction effects at Little Prairie, and the immediate post-earthquake time frame of his observations make him a valuable Primary Eyewitness even though he didn’t go through the earthquakes themselves. A copy of his account is in the Compendium from the Registry of the Kentucky Historical Society as presented to the Cincinnati Historical Society but the original as cited above still needs to be obtained for comparison and completeness.

  59. McMurtrie, Henry (1819). "Sketches of Louisville..." –has Jared Brooks appendix
    60.

    • Fuller ref. no. 37; Penick ref. no. 26; Viitanen ref. no. 98; Street ref. no 15. Publ. by S. Penn, Louisville. An appendix, pp. 233-255 contains the Jared Brooks (Brooks, 1819; but see also Casseday, 1852) chronology and narrative of the New Madrid earthquakes. A complete copy of the Brooks appendix has been obtained for the Compendium; the rest of the volume needs to be reviewed for any other relevant material.

  60. McWilliams, Richebourg Gaillard (1953). "Fleur d’Lys & Calumet…" Pénicault Narrative

    61.      • Full title: "Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Pénicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana [1698-1721]" Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. Cited by McDermott (1977) in the Introduction to Pittman (1770a) for good information on the early explorations of the French in the Mississippi Valley.
  61. Melish, John (Map, 1813). "A Map of the Southern Section of the United States"
    62.

    • Engraved by H.S. Tanner; from Melish (1815) "Milatary and Topographical Atlas of the United States." A poor photocopy of this map is in Ristow (1985) "American Maps and Mapmakers" p. 182. Also a poor quality jpeg on the Univ. of Georgia rare map web site: www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps . This is an important map for its time period; it shows Lake Michagamas and St. Francis River flowing far west of its true channel with two connecting streams to the Mississippi, one at Plum point, the other around Caruthersville bend.

  62. Melish, John (1815). "A Military & Topographic Atlas of the United States…"
    63.

    • Publ. for the author, G. Palmer, printer, Philadelphia. Ristow (1985) "American Maps and Mapmakers" devotes a whole chapter to Melish. This atlas appears to have some of his best maps, but also examined for the Compendium are Melish (1812) "Travels…" and Melish (1826) "Geographical Description…" Needs to be reviewed for the description accompanying the map "Map of the Southern Section of the United States" (Melish, Map, 1813).

  63. Melish, John (Map, 1821). "Map of Tennessee in 1821"

    64.      • Philadelphia, 37x19 cm, relief shown pictorially. No image or other information available. If Reelfoot or Wood lake is shown, this would be one of the earliest depictions.
  64. Michaux, Francois Andre (1805). "Travels to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains"
    65.

    • Trans. from French by B. Lambert, J. Mawman, London, 350 pp. Also Vol. III in Thwaites (1904) "Early Western Travels." Contains a folded engraved map of North America. Michaux was perhaps the most famous of the early naturalists in America, known especially for his work on trees (see Michaux & Nuttall, 1850-52) "North American Sylva"). Michaux was a Pre-Earthquake Observer, 1801-1803 although it sounds like he never got to the Lower Mississippi Valley.

  65. Mississippi River Commission (Map, 1887). "Alluvial Valley of the Mississippi River"
    66.

    • Cited by Fuller (1905) as the base map for "Map of Earthquake Features of the New Madrid District," which is Plate I of Fuller (1912) USGS Bulletin 494.

  66. Mississippi River Commission (Map, 1903). "Map of the Saint Francis Basin…"
    67.

    • Compiled and drawn by C.W. Clark, Assist. Engr., 4 sheets, scale 0.5 in=1 mi, 1905 updates added in color. Three of the four sheets copied at the MRC Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Feb. 1999. Need 4th sheet (from n. of Osceola to Memphis) to complete the map and to verify the color information on original.

  67. Mitchell, John (Map, 1755). "A Map of the British Colonies in North America...."
    68.

    • London, by the Author, and Andrew Millar, 1755, but 1775 and later. From Goss (1990) "The Mapping of North America" p: 130: "The single most important map in American colonial history." This is because it was the basis for territorial boundaries drawn up in the treaties ending the French & Indian and Revolutionary wars. A small scale copy is reproduced in Goss (Map 59, p. 131); a full-scale Compendium copy is needed. The Mississippi River is shown in considerable detail; it appears to be taken nearly completely from Delisle (1718) "Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi."

  68. Moore, Gerald K. (1965). "Geology & Hydrology of the Claiborne Group in Western Tenn."
    69.

    • U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 1809F, 44 pp. Cited by Blythe et al. (1975) "Geology of Reelfoot Lake" p. 72. Describes evidence for Ridgely fault, south of Reelfoot Lake and may contain clues whether Ridgely fault may be interpreted as a southern continuation of Reelfoot fault.

  69. Morgan, George (1788). New Madrid Circular –in Hunt’s "Writings of James Madison"
    70.

    • Reprinted in Hunt, G. [ed.] (1908) "The Writings of James Madison" G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, Vol. 5, p. 331. Also in same volume is Madison’s letter of 26 March 1789 to G. Washington in response to Morgan’s "Spanish empire."

  70. Morgan, Col. James Morris (1905). "…Morgan’s Journey down the Mississippi in 1767"
    71.

    • in Report of the Eighth International Geographic congress Held in the United States, 1904 (1905), Gov’t. Printing Office, Washington DC. Could be a good Pre-Earthquake Observer (and pre-New Madrid). Code B because–Is this THE George Morgan, founder of New Madrid?

  71. Nuttli, Otto W. (1981b). "Yearbook of Science and Technology–1981"
    72.

    • McGraw Hill. Cited by Penick (1981a) p. 139, as a general article on the New Madrid earthquakes (but not in his "Essay on Sources."

  72. Odenbach, Rev. Father (1906-07). Jesuit accounts of earthquakes
    73.

    • Twelfth Annual Report, Meteorological Observatory, St. Ignatius College, Cleveland OH, pp. 7-15. The author searched the full 73 volumes of the Jesuit Relations (translated and edited by Reuben G. Thwaites) for earthquake data; the extracted results are this report.

  73. Owen, David Dale (1856). "Report of the Geological Survey in Kentucky, 1854-55"

    • Fuller ref. no. 41a; Penick ref. no. 97. 4 vols, A.G. Hodges Printer, Frankfort KY. Fuller cites pp. 117-119 for descriptions of earthquake features in the vicinity of Reelfoot Lake. Those pages and Plate 6, "Distant View of Reelfoot Lake" have been copied. Still need Plate 5, another view of the lake and to review the rest of the report for relevant Compendium material. Win Smith of Univ. Tenn., Martin, believes that Owen’s lithographic plates are the earliest images of Reelfoot Lake.

  74. Peck, John Mason (1831). "Guide for Emigrants, Containing Sketches…"

    75. • Full citation: "Guide for Emigrants, Containing Sketches of Illinois, Missouri, and the Adjacent Parts" Lincoln & Edmands, Boston, 336 pp. A 2nd edition appeared in 1837. Includes a color folded map of the "Western States," Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee. An important early guide book for western emigrants. Rated Code B for the map.

  75. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (unkn). "Letter from James McBride"
    76.

    • Full title: "A Letter from James McBride Regarding the Earthquake of 1811-1812" P. 398-402, no volume or date information. A copy (partial?) of this letter was in an old notebook at CERI, provenance unknown. It gives the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society as page headings. This probably duplicates McBride (1910) Brief Accounts… but a copy from the Register is needed to verify.

  76. Ryen, Dag (1980). "This Trembling Land"

    77.      •The Helicon Co., Lexington KY. Subjects: Western Kentucky 1810-1820, New Madrid Earthquake, Mississippi River, Reelfoot Lake, Battle of Fallen Timbers.
  77. Savelle, Max (1932b). "George Morgan, Colony Builder" Columbia Univ. Press
    78.

    • Penick ref. no. 112; Viitanen ref. no. 88. Columbia Univ. Press, New York. This is evidently the work from which Savelle (1932b) "The Founding of New Madrid, Missouri" was drawn

  78. Schreurs, R.L. & M.V. Marcher (1959). "Geology & Water Resources…Dyersburg Quad"
    79.

    • Full citation: "Geology and Groundwater Resources of the Dyersburg Quadrangle, Tennessee" Tenn. Div. Geology Report, Investigation 7, 61 pp. Stearns & Miller (1977) "Earthquake Hazards in Tennessee" describe this report as providing a "[good description of geology of northesternmost Tennessee, including geologic maps."

  79. Schumn, Stanley A. (1977). "The Fluvial System"
    80.

    •Publ. by John Wiley & Sons, New York, 338 pp. Cited in Watson, Schumm & Harvey (1984) "Neotectonic Effects on River Pattern. A general reference text for Miss. River behavior; Schumm is the leading authority on the fluvial geomorphology of the Miss. River.

  80. Schwartz, Seymour & Ralph Ehrenberg (1980). "The Mapping of America"
    81.

    •Publ. by Harry N. Abrams, New York, 363 pp., with 354 illustrations, 223 maps, 84 in color. One of the best works on the cartography of North America. Serve as cartographic reference work for the New Madrid Compendium III, Maps and Photographs.

  81. Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1878). "Reelfoot Lake"
    82.

    • Atlantic Monthly, Aug 1878, pp. 216-222. Shaler was a noted Harvard geologist and popularizer of science. This article was cited in Keel (1999) "New Madrid Seismic Zone: Publication Bibliography."

  82. Shoemaker, Floyd C. (ed.) (1943). "Missouri and Missourians: Land of Contrasts…"
    83.

    • Lewis Publ. Co., Chicago, 5 vols. Cited by Powell (1975) "History of Mississippi County, MO" who used Vol. 1 ~p. 245 of this 5-volume work for the earthquake description in the Grand Prairie region of the county.

  83. Starling, Edmund L. (1887). "History of Henderson County, Kentucky"
    84.

    • Evansville IN, reproduction by Unigraphic, 1965, 840 pp. Henderson County in western Kentucky has several somewhat fragmentary reports from the 1811-12 earthquakes. Perhaps fuller accounts can be found here?

  84. Stearns, R.G. & C.W. Wilson (1972). "Relation… Earthquakes & Geology in West Tenn."
    85.

    • Full citation: "Relationship of Earthquakes and Geology in West Tennessee and Adjacent Areas" Tennessee Valley Authority Report (no report number), Knoxville TN, 302 pp. incl. 128 pp. Earthquake chronology for New Madrid region. Also includes an annotated bibliography and a geological evaluation.

  85. Stewart, David & Ray Knox (1992). "Representative Earthquake Features in the NMSZ"
    86.

    • Stewart & Knox ref. no. 113. 2nd printing, Center for Earthquake Studies, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau MO, 62 pp. Not cited, any other source.

  86. Surrey, N. M. Miller (1926, 1928). "Calendar of Manuscripts in Paris Archives…"
    87.

    • Full citation: "Calendar of Manuscripts in Paris Archives and Libraries Relating to the History of the Mississippi Valley to 1803" 2 vols., Carnegie Institute, Washington DC. Cited by McDermott in his Introduction to Pittman (1770a) "Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi River…" p. 119. Needed as a general reference work for the New Madrid Compendium IVa Background—Historical.

  87. Switzler, W. F. (1879). "Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri from 1541 to 1877"
    88.

    • Fuller ref. no. 49; Penick ref. no. 17. C.R. Burns Publ., St. Louis. Fuller cites this work for containing a "graphic account" of the New Madrid earthquakes by Godfrey Lesieur (see, e.g., Lesieur, 9 Mar 1872). It also reprints the Louis Linn account (Linn, 1837). Have obtained a copy of Chpt. 8 with these accounts; need to review the entire book for other relevant Compendium material.

  88. Thompson, Wilson (1867). "The Autobiography of Elder Wilson Thompson..."
    89.

    • Viitanen ref. no. 41; Stewart & Knox ref. no. 123. Publ. by E.T. Aleshire, Springfield, Ohio. Reprinted (1978) by Old School Hymnal Co., Conley, Georgia, 363 pp. Houck (Houck, 1908) in his History of Missouri, pp. 208-209, recounts Elder Thompson’s description of being caught in a severe earthquake while on horseback in the vicinity of Commerce/Benton Hills north of New Madrid on January 8, 1812.

  89. Thwaites, Reuben Gold [editor] (1904). "Early Western Travels, 1748-1846"
    90.

    • Penick ref. no. 7; Viitanen ref. no. 41; cited by both for Vol. V, which is John Bradbury’s "Early Western Travels…" The entire 32-volume set [Arthur H. Clark Co., Cleveland; reprinted (1966) by AMS Press, New York] consists of western frontier travel narratives selected and informingly edited by Thwaites and include among others Bradbury (1817), Nuttal (1821) and Edwin James, botanist and geologist for the Long expedition (James, 1823). Hence Early Western Travels is a valuable Compendium general reference work; all volumes need to be examined for potential Pre- and Post-Earthquake Observers. Moreover, Thwaites includes a very thorough index for all volumes, which can be search by keywords such as ‘earthquake’ or ‘New Madrid.’

  90. Vann, Jane & Vera Ashley (1985). "New Madrid County Cemetery Inscriptions"

    • 142-page report in the New Madrid County Courthouse(?). Vera Ashley is the probably the wife or daughter of Ben Ashley, Recorder of Deeds for New Madrid County. Elizabeth(Eliza) Bryan is listed: born May 10, 1780 in Chester County, Penn.; died August 10, 1866 and interred in the New Madrid Hunter-Dawson cemetery.

  91. Viles, Jonas (1908). "The Archives of Missouri"

    92. • Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1908, Vol. I, pp. 319-364; republished in pamphlet form by Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1910. Reference work for the New Madrid Compendium IV a: Background—Historical.

  92. Viles, Jonas (1910-1911). "Population & Extent of Settlement in Missouri before 1804"
    93.

    • Missouri Historical Review, Vol. V, pp. 187-213. Cited by Goodwin (1919) "Early Explorations & Settlements…Missouri & Arkansas."

  93. West Tennessee Land Co. (1909-14). Trial transcripts of lawsuit over Reelfoot Lake land
    94.

    • State of Tennessee—vs—West Tennessee Land Company trial transcripts. This was the litigation by means of which the State took possession of Reelfoot Lake (and its lakebed). In order to do so the State had to show that Reelfoot Lake was a "navigable" body of water, hence was not eligible for private ownership. The State lost the original suit, filed in 1909 at chancery court, Obion County, and its appeal in the court of civil appeals, Jackson TN, but it won in 1913 before the State Supreme Court, Nashville (Alexander, 1923, "Reelfoot Lake, Part 2). There was evidently much testimony of value to the Compendium regarding the origin and early description of the lake.

  94. "Western Journal" (1848-1855). journal of the Trans-Mississippi West. entire run

    95. • Monthly periodical, published in St. Louis, possibly the first such journal to be published west of the Mississippi River. Prints articles by the editors and contributors on a wide variety of subjects for the Mississippi Valley and transmississippi west. Contents need review for potentially relevant Compendium material.

  95. Wetmore, Alphonso (1837). "Gazetteer of the State of Missouri" [has Lewis Linn]

    96. •Fuller ref. no. 52; Penick ref. no. 15; Viitanen ref. no. 44. Publ. by C. Keemle, St. Louis. Copy obtained of pp. 131-142, which contains the full text of Sen. Louis Linn’s graphic account of the 1811-12 earthquakes (Linn, 1837). Need to review entire volume, especially the accompanying map of Missouri.

  96. Whitaker, A.P. (1927). "Spain and the Cherokee Indians, 1783-1798"
    97.

    • North Carolina Historical Review, vol. 4 (July 1927), p. 254. Cited by Myers (1997) "Cherokee Pioneers in Arkansas." Whitaker describes Cherokee settlement near New Madrid; in one instance 30 Cherokees received permission to settle in 1790. It is important to document that the Indians in the New Madrid vicinity in 1811-12 were not native to the region because Godfrey Lesieur (Lesieur, 1867-70) states that the Indians had no tradition of large earthquakes prior to 1811.

  97. Woodruff, Audrey L. [edit.] (1995). "Missouri Pioneers: New Madrid County"
    98.

    • Boyd Publ. Co., Inc., paperback, 32 pp. ISBN: 0964485850. No other information available. The New Madrid earthquakes should figure prominently in any treatment of New Madrid County pioneers.

  98. WPA Historical Records Survey (1935-42). "Dunklin County"

    99. • Works Progress Administration—Historical Records Survey files for Dunklin County are in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, Coll. No. 3551, Folders 6914-6965. The similar file for New Madrid County contained some valuable Compendium material; however, all Dunklin County records prior to 1872 were destroyed by fire. A microfilm copy of a four-page section "Scenery— Animals—Etc." written in 1895 has been obtained that has a good but undocumented description of the country surrounding Little (White Water) River prior to 1811. The rest of the Dunklin County file needs to be reviewed for possible additional Compendium-relevant material.

  99. Wright, H.P. (1943). "Memo." — notes concerning the New Madrid earthquake of 1811

    • Western Historical Manuscript Collection, joint collection of the Univ. of Missouri & State Historical Soc. of Missouri, Columbia MO, collection 995.732, 20 pages. The citation may be found at http://www.system.missouri.edu/whmc/invent/geog.htm #137 but the Memorandum itself is not online.

C. may have useful bits & pieces –alphabetic

  1. Agar, W.M., R.F. Flint & C.R. Longwell (1929). "Geology from Original Sources"

    2.      • Chpt. 10 "Movements of the Earth’s Crust" contains generalized discussions of both 1886 Charleston New Madrid. Portions of Chpt 10 have been obtained–need all of it
  2. Andrews, Allen (1963). "Earthquake" –good pre-plate tectonic summary/reference

    3. • Penick ref. no. 85. — should provide a good NMC-BS pre-plate tectonic viewpoint

  3. Ashley, G. H. (1910). "Drainage Problems in Western Tennessee"

    4. • TN Geol. Survey bulletin cited in Mainfort (1994) "Archaeological Investigations…Obion River"

  4. Baird, Robert (1834). "View of the Valley of the Mississippi, or Emigrant’s…Guide…"

    5. • Cited by Ogilvie (1970) "Gov’t. Efforts at Reclamation in the SE Lowlands" p. 155, as one of many travel guides that rated the New Madrid lowlands region as of little economic value.

  5. Baker, C.L. (1942). "Map of Reelfoot Lake–special insert"

    6.      • Special insert in the J. Tenn. Acad. Sci. Cited by Shelford (1954) "LMV Floodplain Biotic Communities"
  6. Benson, Allen L. (1928). "The Story of Geology" —extract in MO Hist. Rev.

    7.      • Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 300 pp. Mo Hist. Rev., vol. 23, no. 4 (1929), p. 655 quotes Benson as stating that for years before the first 1811 shock, "subterranean rumblings had been heard."
  7. Binkerd, H. D. (1869). "The Mammoth Cave and Its Denizens"

    8. • Robert Clarke & Co Printers, Cincinnati. Cited by George & O’Dell (1992) "Saltpeter Works at Mammoth Cave and the New Madrid Earthquakes" p. 12, as containing a "third hand description" of the earthquake at Mammoth Cave.

  8. Bird, Robert Montgomery (1837). "Mammoth Cave of Kentucky"

    9. • American Monthly Magazine (1837) pp. 417-38 & 525-46. Cited by George & O’Dell (1992) "Saltpeter Works at Mammoth Cave and the New Madrid Earthquakes" p. 12, as one of the best travel accounts to the cave and includes descriptions of damages wrought by the 1811-12 events.

  9. Blythe, Ernie et al. (1981). "Earthquakes & Related Features of the Miss, River Valley"

    10. • Stewart & Knox ref. no. 14. This is a 28-page symposium and field trip proceedings from UT Martin.

  10. Boeson, Victor Hugo (1941). "America's Greatest Earthquake" Coronet

    11. • Viitanen ref. no. 52. Article in Coronet, vol. 9, Jan 1941, pp. 75-80

  11. Bradford, T.G. (Map, 1838b). "Map of the State of Tennessee"

    12. • 14 x 17", no other info. Of interest because of the date: how were Reelfoot Lake and Lake Obion depicted (if at all)?

  12. Bradley, R.S. & P.D. Jones, ed. (1992). "Climate since A.D. 1500"

    13. • Cited by Overpeck et al. (1997) "Arctic Environ. Change of the Last Four Centuries" in Science. For Special Interest Topic Little Ice Age, Compendium: Background-Historical.

  13. Branner, George C. & J. M. Hansell (1933). "Earthquake Risks in Arkansas"

    14.      • Information Circular 4, Ark. Geol. Survey, Little Rock. Cited by Ross (1968) "The New Madrid Earthquake" p. 99 as stating that from 1909 (first seismograph at St. Louis) to the present 95% of the earthquakes affecting Arkansas affected the NE portion of the state.
  14. Britannica, 3rd edition (1798). "Encyclopaedia...." First American Edition

    15. • Penick ref. no.78. Penick says the third edition, pp. 264-288 & 535-539, has the best contemporary summary of early theories of earthquakes, especially electrical and/or volcanic.

  15. Brooks, Van Wyck (1944). "The World of Washington Irving"

    16. • Cited in Shrum (1988) "The Real New Madrid Earthquakes" for its "Magnificent description" of the eccentricities of Lorenzo Dow, the itinerant minister to whom Eliza Bryan wrote her famous 1816 letter. Washington Irving wrote some about the 1811-12 earthquakes (see Irving, 1817). This source possibly could tell us where he was in the winter of 1811-12.

  16. Brown, Samuel R. (1817). "The Western Gazetteer; or, Emigrant's Directory"

    • Penick ref. no. 124; also cited by Reps (1965) "The Making of Urban America" p. 484, both for the circa 1817 description of New Madrid after the earthquakes, p. 206. Call no. F353.B87 1971 (reprint); need to scan the entire book for relevant material.

  17. Bryan, Wm. S. & Robert Rose (1876). "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri"

    18. • Publ. In St. Louis. Call no. F465.B91. No other info. available. Need to scan for any New Madrid connections.

  18. Buttrick, Tilly, Jr. (1831). "Voyages, Travels & Discoveries of Tilly Buttrick, Jr., 1812-19"

    19. • A Post-Earthquake Observer reference. Cited in Moneymaker (1954) "…Earthquakes in Tennessee…" p. 229. This account is reprinted Thwaites "Early Western Travels, 1748-1846" Vol. VIII, Cleveland, Ohio, 1905.

  19. Caruso, John A. (1966). "Mississippi Valley Frontier: Age of French Explor. & Settlement"

    20.      • Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 423 pp. Call no. F352 .C35. For Compendium IV.a. Background—Historical.
  20. Cary, John (Map, 1821). "A New Map of the U.S. of A. from the Latest Authorities"

    21. • Have a poor non-Compendium-quality copy from the frontpiece of Flint’s (1826) "Recollections…" It shows Mississippi Valley features such as Lake Michigamas, Prunes River and Cepoussa River that are inherited from the French (Delisle) despite the fact that Cary was one of the most able and prolific English cartographers. A Compendium-quality copy needed.

  21. Claiborne, John F. H. (1880). "Mississippi as a Province, Territory and State"

    22. • Publ. By Power & Barksdale, Jackson MS. Cited by Jewell (1892) "History of Methodism in Arkansas" p. 24 for the discussion of the trip of the steamboat New Orleans. Intended as two volumes but the Vol. 2 ms was lost in fire; however, Vol. 1 should cover the 1811-12 time period.

  22. Claiborne, William C. C. (1917). "Official Letter Books, 1801-1816"

    23.      • Six volumes, Jackson MS, edited by Dunbar Rowland. Cited by Ambler (1932) "History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley" p. 113, as granting Robert Fulton and the steamboat New Orleans exclusive rights to steam navigation on the Mississippi River (soon successfully challenged in court by Henry Shreve).
  23. Clark, Thomas D. (1937). "A History of Kentucky"

    24.      • John Bradford Press, Lexington, revised (1960) edit. of 1937 1st edit., 516 pp. Clark is considered the "Dean" of KY historians. Need to scan for Compendium-relevant material in the Jackson Purchase of western KY.
  24. Clark, William (1814, Jan. 12). Pamphlet of letter requesting aid because of NM eqs.

    25. • Available at Choice Books Bookstore, Carbondale IL (A. Metzger). Wm Clark was first Territorial Governor of Missouri. [n.b. This letter request is almost certainly in the Carter (1948-49) "Territorial Papers…"]

  25. Cornell, James (1976). "The Great International Disaster Book"

    26. • Cited by Clifton (1980) "Reelfoot and the New Madrid Quake" p. 51; quotes almost a page from it of general observations, re, the 1811-12 earthquakes.

  26. Cotton, Corinne Campbell (1936). "Reelfoot or Indian Blankets and Blue Bonnets…"

    27. • Abilene Printing & Stationery Co. Contains a historical sketch of Reelfoot Lake. It’s hard to imagine that this is useful but it must be checked out.

  27. Coward, Howard L. (1901). "Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri" — 6 volumes

    28.      • Southern History Co., St. Louis. Rare. LOC has it on microfilm. Cited by Barrett (1939) in WPA-HRS New Madrid County (1935-44). Barrett quotes the Encyclopedia as stating much of the sunklands formed not from subsidence but from timber drift clogging the original channels. Crevasses ran NE-SW and the larger ones became sloughs and bayous. Blowholes became ponds, some of which yet hold water.
  28. Curry, Jerome P. (1972). "Bootheel Quakes in 1800s Weren't Nation's Strongest"

    29. • Viitanen ref. no. 15. April 16, 1972, issue of St. Louis Post-Dispatch p. 10. Discusses the early 1970s research of Otto Nuttli and Carl Kisslinger at St. Louis University.

  29. Daniels, Jonathan W. (1962). "The Devil’s Backbone: The Story of the Natchez Trace"

    30. • McGraw-Hill, New York, 278 pp. Cited by Merrill (1976) "Jefferson Nephews". The Natchez Trace and the Lower Mississippi Valley were inextricably linked during the time period of the New Madrid earthquakes.

  30. Daubeny, Charles (1839). "Sketch of the Geology of North America…"

    31. • Oxford, the Ashmolean Society, 73 pp. with a folding map of the U.S. and Canada. Shumard in the Annual Report of the Missouri Geological Survey cites Daubeny for "contributions to the geology of Missouri." Need to scan for relevant Compendium material.

  31. Daubeny, Charles (1843). "Journal of a Tour through the United States...1837-38"

    32. • Oxford, printed by T. Combs for the University, 231 pp. with folding map. Post Earthquake Observer: Daubeny was in NE Arkansas in 1838 (Ross, 1968, "The New Madrid Earthquake" p. 86).

  32. Delanglez, Jean (1935). "The French Jesuits in Lower Louisiana (1700-1735)"

    33. • Catholic Univ. of America, vol. 21, Washington DC, available as AMS Press, New York, 1974, 547 pp. Reprint of Delanglez’s thesis. Could be useful for sorting out the major players in contributing to the Delisle Mississippi River maps (Delisle, 1703, 1718).

  33. Devens, R. M. (1882). "Our First Century or 100 Great and Memorial Events…."

    34. • C.A. Nichols & Co., Springfield MA. Cited in American History (1991) "The Other (?) Missouri Earthquake" p. 40. Evidently the 1811-12 earthquakes were one of the 100 "great and memorial" events.

  34. Dunbar, Seymour (1915). "A History of Travel in America" — 4 volumes

    35. • Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis. Cited by Ambler (1932) "History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley" p. 119, for an illustration of the steamboat New Orleans. (The dispute over whether the New Orleans was a side-wheeler or sternwheeler is a Compendium Special Interest Topic.)

  35. Edwards, John Clark (1/29, 2/19 & 2/26 1812). —volcanoes in western NC (Penn. Gazette)

    36. • Penick ref. no. 9. This is the infamous account (actually two separate letters) of volcanoes and other wonders in western NC, originally published by the Raleigh Star and widely reprinted by other American newspapers, along with later retractions and recriminations from the editors. Penick references the Pennsylvania Gazette, 29 Jan, 19 Feb & 26 Feb 1812, but a complete file of all reprintings and retractions is needed for the Compendium.

  36. Ellet, C., E.G. Squier & L. Agassiz (1851). "Smithsonian Contrib. to Knowledge, Vol II"

    37. • Washington, Smithsonian Inst., 1849, Library of Congress duplicate. Full title of first article by Ellet: "On the Physical Geography of the Mississippi Valley, with suggestions as to the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio and other Rivers"

  37. Ellet, Charles (1853). "The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers"

    38. • Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia. May be very similar to Ellet et al. (1853). Of interest because it precedes the monumental Humphreys & Abbot (1861) "Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River" – but not by much.

  38. Ellis, James F. (1929). "The Influence of Environment on the Settlement of Missouri"

    39. • Penick ref. no. 129. Webster Publ. Co., St. Louis, 181 pp. This was a St. Louis Univ. PhD dissertation. A seven-page manuscript by Ellis with the same title covers the 1811-12 earthquakes. It is from the WPA Historical Record Survey, New Madrid County and listed as Ellis (n.d.); it is probably extracted from this dissertation source.

  39. Faden, William (Map, 1783). The United States of N. America…according to the Treaty"

    40. • Full title: "The United States of North America with the British and Spanish Territories according to the Treaty". Have a small image—jpeg download from the web. It’s mostly illegible but appears to be very much a Delisle clone. Compendium-quality copy needed.

  40. Faux, William (1823). "Memorable Days in America…."

    41. • Full Title: "Memorable Days in America: Being a Journal of a Tour to the United States." Reprinted in Thwaites, "Early Western Travels" Vol. XI and by AMS Press (1969). Post-Earthquake Observer. Cited by Ogilvie (1970) "…Reclamation of SE Missouri Lowlands" and by Douglass (1912) "History of SE Missouri" for observing that the 1811-12 earthquakes slowed the population growth of the region by discouraging settlement.

  41. Foster, John Wells (1869). "The Mississippi Valley: Its Physical Geography"

    42. • Fuller ref. no. 12; Penick ref. no. 46; Viitanen ref. no. 100. S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago, 443 pp. Principal source for the Primary Eyewitness account of A. Dillard. Fuller’s comment: "Quotes the accounts of A.N. Dillard and Timothy Flint at length, appending a few original paragraphs [pp. 19-25]." Copies of those pages have been acquired; need to review rest for possible relevant Compendium material.

  42. Fuller, Myron L. (1905a). "The New Madrid Earthquake, by Edward M. Shepard..."

    43. • Fuller ref. no. 18. In American Geologist (Economic Geology after Feb. 1906), vol. 35, pp. 180-181. A brief review of Shepard’s article (Shepard, 1905) "The New Madrid Earthquake." Much of Fuller’s field work for Fuller (1912) was done with Shepard.

  43. Funk, Allison & Sonia Sanchez (1995). "Living at the Epicenter"

    44.      • ISBN 1555532470. A book of poetry from Northeastern Univ. Press. The Library Journal says "In the title poem of this volume, an epigraph tells of Eliza Bryan, of New Madrid, Missouri…Highly recommended."
  44. Garrett, Jasamyn (1961, "Bountiful Bootheel Borning" [in verse]

    45. • Penick ref. no. 136, Viitanen ref. no. 65, Stewart & Knox ref. no. 39. Publ. by the author, Hayti, MO. Penick invites "[t]hose who like their history in verse" to look at this reference.

  45. Godbey, A. H. (1890). "Great Disasters and Horrors in the World’s History"

    46. • Cited in Logsdon (1990) "I Was There!". Evidently the New Madrid earthquakes were included as one of the "great disasters and horrors."

  46. Gordon, Harry [Capt.] (Map, 1766-78?). Capt. Gordon’s map of the Ohio River & vicinity

    47. • Cited by Banta (1949) "The Ohio" p. 383. Gordon was an officer in the British colonial forces and took part in the first accurate geographical reconnaissance of the Ohio River in 1766. In Banta’s words, he produced "an accurate and rather beautifully executed map" but it was not included in the report of the survey by the leader Thomas Hutchins (see Hutchins, 1778) and Gordon seems to have disappeared from the American scene. The map original is preserved in the Library of Congress but it is unclear if a printing was ever made.

  47. Habermehl, John (1901). "Life on the Western Waters"

    48. • Pittsburgh. Cited by Ambler (1901) "History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley" p. 119, as having an illustration of the steamboat New Orleans. Also need to scan for any relevant Compendium material.

  48. Hall, Basil (1830). "Travels in North America in the Years 1827 & 1828"

    49. • Edinburgh, 3 vols., 421, 432, 436 pp. A potential Post-Earthquake Observer reference. Hall was a captain in the British navy. He traveled widely over the United States, including the Mississippi Valley. ABEbooks says Hall was "a clear and forceful writer, and his work contains many excellent descriptions of places and conditions that came under his observation."

  49. Halliburton, William Henry (1903). "…Topographical…History…Arkansas County…"

    50. • Full title: "A Topographical Description and History of Arkansas County, Arkansas, from 1541 to 1875" Privately printed, De Witt, Arkansas. Cited by Holder (1968) "Historical Geography of the Lower White River" p. 138. The Special Interest Site Arkansas Post is in Arkansas County.

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

    51. • Viitanen ref. no. 69. Published in Focus Midwest, St. Louis, FOCUS/Midwest Publ Co., pp. 22-23. Focus Midwest was absorbed by the St. Louis Journalism Review in 1974(?).

  51. Heck, Nicholas H. (1928). "Earthquake History of the U.S. Exclusive of Pacific Region"

    52. • U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Special Publication 149. Cited by Heinrich (1941) "A Contribution to the Seismic History of Missouri" p. 192. It is probable that Heck (1938) "Earthquake History of the U.S., Part 1, Continental United States (exclusive of California and Western Nevada)" is an update of this reference

  52. Heck, H. N. (1938). "Earthquake History of the United States, Part I…."

    53. • Full title: "Earthquake History of the U.S., Part 1, Continental United States (exclusive of California and Western Nevada)" U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, Serial No. 609, 83 pp. Cited by Krinitsky (1950) "Geological Investigation of Faulting in the Lower Mississippi Valley". This report was revised through 1956 by R.A. Eppley and assigned U.S. Coast & Geodetic Report No. 41-1. Either the 1938 or 1956 version would be suitable for the Compendium.

  53. Heck, Nicholar Hunter (1965). "Earthquakes" –for pre-plate-tectonics summ./ref.

    54. • Penick ref. no. 83. Hafner Publ. Co., New York. Should serve as a good immediately pre-plate tectonics reference.

  54. Hildreth, Samuel Prescott (1844). "Contributions to the Early History of the Northwest"

    55.      • Fuller ref. no. 26a. Fuller quotes the title as "original Contributions to the American Pioneer" Cincinnati, pp. 34-35. Amazon.com uses the "Contributions…" title, available as a "library binding" through Reprint Services Corp., ISBN 078125373X. American Pioneer was a monthly periodical; see Hildreth (1842) for details. This reference may be substantially the same account as Hildreth (1842), which gave us the unnamed D1 Primary Eyewitness identified as Hildreth’s Informant.
  55. Hood, W. (Map, 1837). "Map Illustrating…Defences of the Western and NW Frontier"

    56. • Complete citation: "Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defences of the Western & Northwestern Frontier, " as proposed by The Hon. J.R. Poinsett Sec. Of War in his report of Dec. 30, 1837, Compiled in the U.S. Topographical Bureau under the direction of Col. J.J. Abert U.S.T.E., Boyen & Co., Lith., Philadelphia. This map has good detail of the Lower Mississippi Valley. The St. Francis River appears accurately depicted for the time period; no swamps are shown but there are two lakes between the St. Francis and Little Rivers. We have an 8 1/2 x 11" copy; need a Compendium-quality copy.

  56. Horton, S.P., N. Barstow & K. Jacob (1996). "Simulation…Ground Motion…Memphis"

    57. • Full Title: "Simulation of Earthquake Ground Motion in Memphis, Tennessee" in Proceedings of the Eleventh World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Acapulco, Mexico, June 23-28, Paper No. 1302.

  57. Humphreys, Cecil C. (1938). The History of the Reelfoot Lake Region" masters thesis

    58. • Unpublished Masters thesis, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville. Cited by Vanderwood (1969) "Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake". Most of this thesis’s material is probably found in Humphreys (1960) "Formation of Reelfoot Lake and Consequent Land and Social Problems" but it needs to be reviewed nevertheless.

  58. Jackson, Andrew (8 Feb 1812). record of an earthquake [F1] in Nashville

    59. • Cited by Street (1984) "Historical Seismicity of the Central United States: 1811-1928" p. A137, where he reports the information from Williams (1930) "Beginnings of West Tennessee…" p. 78 that "Andrew Jackson recorded (February 8th) that at Nashville the severity was such as ‘to throw down chimneys and to crack walls.’" The original source where Jackson recorded these comments needs to be found.

  59. Jackson, K. C. (1979). "Earthquakes and Earthquake History of Arkansas"

    60. • Stewart & Knox ref. no. 55. Information Circular 26, Arkansas Geological Commission, 70 pp.

  60. Karpinski, Louis C. (1927). "Manuscript Maps Relating to American History…"

    61. • Miss. Valley Historical Review, vol. XIV (Dec. 1927) pp. 437-439; also published in Amer. Hist. Rev., vol. XXXIII (Jan. 1928) pp. 328-330. Cited by Beers (1957) "The French in North America" p. 121. A needed cartographic reference for the early French (and Spanish?) maps of the Lower Mississippi Valley.

  61. Kurz, Rudolph Friederich (1937). "Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz"

    62. • Smithsonian Inst., Bureau of American Ethnology, Bull. 115, Washington. Reprinted by Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln [1970], 382 pp. Cited by Havighurst (1964) "Voices on the River" p. 93. Post-Earthquake Observer. Kurz, a Swiss, traveled the Mississippi Valley from 1847-1853.

  62. La Force, Alice [ed.] (1948). "The Missouri Reader: The Louisiana Purchase"

    63. • Missouri Historical Review, vol. XLII (January, 1948) p. 157. Cited by Robins (1951a) "Americans in the Valley, Part III." For historical background on New Madrid and vicinity.

  63. Leahy, Ethel C. (1931). "Who's Who on the Ohio River..." —includes Crammer's 8th*

    64. • Penick ref. no. 39. E.C. Leahy Publ. Co., Cincinnati. Includes Cramer’s (1814) 8th edit. of The Navigator. Penick calls it "a mine of detail, trivial and otherwise." Needs to be reviewed for any Compendium-relevant material.

  64. Lowe, Walter Edgar (1930). "History of Reelfoot Lake" —unpubl. masters thesis

    65. • Master’s thesis, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville TN. Cited by Vanderwood (1969) "Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake."

  65. Madox, D. T. (1817). "Late Account of the Missouri Territory"

    66. • Penick ref. no. 56. Prinnted for the author by John Kyle, Paris KY. Penick’s comment: "…covers some of the same ground as Henry Brakenridge [Brackenridge (1814) "Views of Louisiana…"], in language suspiciously similar."

  66. Marshall, Thomas Maitland [ed.] (1926). "The Life and Papers of Frederick Bates"

    67.      • Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 2 vols. Frederick Bates was appointed Acting Governor of the Territory of Louisiana, 1807-1808, by Thomas Jefferson. When Meriweather Lewis died of murder/suicide Bates replaced him as Acting Governor, 1809-1810. President Madison appointed Benjamin Howard as Governor of the Louisiana Territory for 1810-1812. Howard, however, had lengthy absences from the Territory, during which Bates served as Acting Governor. One of these absences was from Sep 19, 1811 to Feb 23, 1812 so Bates, in effect was the territorial governor during the New Madrid earthquakes. In June, 1812, Congress established Missouri as a Territory separate from the rest of the Louisiana Territory. President Madison appointed William Clark as the first Missouri Territorial Governor.
  67. Matthias, Virginia Park (1945). "Natchez-under-the-Hill as It Developed…."

    68. • Full citation: "Natchez-Under-the-Hill as It Developed Under the Influence of the Mississippi River and the Natchez Trace," Journal of Mississippi History, vol. VII, pp. 201-221. Examine for Mississippi River information during the time period of the New Madrid earthquakes.

  68. McCall, Archibald (10 Mar. 1812). unpublished letter to Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont

    69. • Letter in the Hagley Museum & Library, Wilmington, Delaware. Cited by George & O’Dell (1992) "Saltpeter Works at Mammoth Cave and the New Madrid Earthquakes" p. 14. George & O’Dell include a long quotation from the letter that is valuable because it identifies specific damage in the cave resulting from the 16 Dec 1811 earthquake. But the likelihood that the letter contains further earthquake information not quoted by George & O’Dell is slim to none.

  69. McClung, Mildred Mays (1974). "Caddo Lake: Mysterious Swampland"

    70. • Southwest Printers, Texarkana TX, trade paperback.No other information available. Cited by Flores (1984) "Jefferson and Southwest Exploration" p. 169, for quoting a Caddo Indian legend on the sudden creation of Caddo Lake during an earthquake.

  70. McCormick, Cyrus T. (n.d.). "The Missouri Indian Trails"

    71. • Manuscript, Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, 25 pp. Indexed at http://www.system.Missouri.edu/whmc/invest/geog.h