Samuel Goodrich (1793-1860)

Johnson, Clifton. "The Geographies of our Forefathers." New England Magazine. N.s. 29(September, 1903-February, 1904). Discusses the geographies of Morse and others, but especially of Samuel Goodrich (Peter Parley).

Roselle, Daniel. Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Creator of Peter Parley: A Study of his Life and Work. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1968. Roselle cannot refrain from criticizing Goodrich for not holding the world view and social out­look of a mid-twentieth-century liberal.

Smith, Emily Goodrich. '"Peter Parley'—As Known to His Daughter." Connecticut Quarterly 4(1898)3:304-15, 4:399-407. Useful memoir; many illustrations. For Goodrich's own marvelous recollections, check the index at the end of this bibliography.

 

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