Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Big Foot Prairie came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Big Foot Prairie in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Big Foot Prairie. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Big Foot Prairie data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Big Foot Prairie:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

Big Foot Prairie is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Big Foot Prairie. See our Misc Page for Big Foot Prairie for more information.