Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Far West came from various goverment sources (GNIS), we also found mention of Far West 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 Far West. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

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

The GNIS database contains an entry for Far West. See our Misc Page for Far West for more information.