Cherokee Trail Diaries: Volume 1-1849 A New Route to the California Gold Fields and Volume II-1850 Another New Route to the California Gold Fields, by Patricia K. A. Fletcher, Dr. Jack Earl Fletcher and Lee Whiteley

These volumes document, through diaries, two wagon trails from Arkansas, Cherokee Nation and Missouri to the main California Trail near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. Continuing to California, the Cherokee/White companies travel the Hastings Cutoff, the first documented wagon companies after the 1846 Reed/Donner Party.