Scotts Bluff National Monument was carved out of the public domain by Presidential proclamation on December 12, 1919, and contains more than 5 square miles. A superintendent, whose address is Box 136, Gering, Nebr., is in immediate charge. _Suggested Readings_ Chittenden, Hiram M., _American Fur Trade of the Far West_. 2 vols. Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Inc., New York, 1936. Driggs, Howard R., _Westward America_ (with reproductions of watercolor paintings by William H. Jackson). Somerset Books, Inc., New York, 1942. Federal Writers’ Project, _The Oregon Trail_. Hastings House, New York, 1939. Ghent, W. J., _The Road to Oregon_. Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1929. Hulbert, Archer B., _Forty-Niners, the Chronicle of the California Trail_. Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., New York, 1931. Jackson, Joseph H., ed., _Gold Rush Album_. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1949. Mattes, Merrill J., “A History of Old Fort Mitchell.” _Nebraska History_, XXIV, 71-82 (Apr.-June 1943). — — —, “Hiram Scott, Fur Trader.” _Nebraska History_, XXVI, 127-162 (July-Sept. 1945). — — —, “Robidoux’s Trading Post at ‘Scott’s Bluffs,’ and the California Gold Rush.” _Nebraska History_, XXX, 95-138 (June 1949). — — —, “Fort Mitchell, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska Territory.” _Nebraska History_, XXXIII, 1-34 (Mar. 1952). — — —, “Chimney Rock on the Oregon Trail.” _Nebraska History_, XXXVI, 1-26 (Mar. 1955). Monaghan, Jay, _The Overland Trail_. The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, 1947. Olson, James C., _History of Nebraska_. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1955. Paden, Irene D., _The Wake of the Prairie Schooner_. The MacMillan Co., New York, 1943. Parkman, Francis, _The Oregon Trail_. Langhart and Co., Inc., New York, 1931. Rollins, Phillip A., ed., _Discovery of the Oregon Trail: Robert Stuart’s Narratives_. Edward Eberstadt and Sons, New York, 1935. U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1961 OF—584508 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HISTORICAL HANDBOOK SERIES (Price lists of National Park Service publications may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D.C.) Antietam Bandelier Chalmette Chickamauga and Chattanooga Battlefields Custer Battlefield Custis-Lee Mansion, the Robert E. Lee Memorial Fort Laramie Fort McHenry Fort Necessity Fort Pulaski Fort Raleigh Fort Sumter George Washington Birthplace Gettysburg Guilford Courthouse Hopewell Village Independence Jamestown, Virginia Kings Mountain The Lincoln Museum and the House Where Lincoln Died Manassas (Bull Run) Montezuma Castle Morristown, a Military Capital of the Revolution Ocmulgee Petersburg Battlefields Saratoga Scotts Bluff Shiloh Statue of Liberty Vanderbilt Mansion Vicksburg Yorktown