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Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
George Morton, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, and Robert Cushman (Dwight B. Heath, ed.)

List Price: $9.95
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Applewood Books, 1986
ISBN: 0918222842

Book Description: Also known as A Relation or Journal of the English Plantation settled at Plymouth in New England, this journal was written by George Morton, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, and Robert Cushman to illustrate the progress of the colony and encourage English investors. This book recounts the construction of New Plymouth as well as several journeys into the surrounding areas and subsequent encounters with the Native populations.

Written between November 1620 and November 1621, it describes in detail what happened from the landing of the Pilgrims at Cape Cod, though their exploring and eventual settling at Plymouth, to their relations with the surrounding Indians, up to the first Thanksgiving and the arrival of the ship Fortune. Originally printed in 1622, this is the first published account of the coming of the Pilgrims to the New World to settle Plymouth Plantation.

Good Newes from New England
by Edward Winslow

List Price: $8.95
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Applewood Books; Reprint edition, 1996
ISBN: 1557094438

Book Description: One of America's earliest books and one of the most important early Pilgrim tracts to come from American colonies. This book helped persuade others to come join those who already came to Plymouth.

Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646: With a map and three facsimiles
by William Bradford

List Price: $29.95
Paperback: 470 pages
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation (July 25, 2001)
ISBN: 140219594X

Book Description: The most important and influential source of information about Plymouth, this landmark account was written by the colony's governor. It vividly documents the Pilgrims' first stop in Holland, their harrowing transatlantic crossing, the first harsh winter in the new land, and the help from Native Americans that saved their lives. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1908 edition by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

Governor William Bradford's Letter Book
by William Bradford

List Price: $9.95
Paperback: 62 pages
Publisher: Applewood Books; Reprint edition (January 1, 2002)
ISBN: 1557095809 

Book Description: Gathered during Plymouth Colony's crucial first decade, Bradford's Letter Book served as a sourcebook for the Governor's well-known history, Of Plymouth Plantation. This intriguing set of letters and documents offers us valuable first-hand acquaintance with the leadership of New England's first plantation. From this collection, we can better appreciate the complex reality that lies behind our idealized image of "the Pilgrim Fathers." Here we can see the conflicting motives and internal struggles, the misunderstandings and misrepresentations, and the practical considerations which combined to shape the lives of the early Plymouth colonists.