Archival Collections
James R. Mead Papers. Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, KS. http://www.kshs.org/archives/40438
Book Collections
Enoch Mead Collection, Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, Call number SC 4538. Over 50 volumes belonging to Enoch Mead, father of James R. Mead, on wide range of topics including religion, literature and history.
James R. Mead Collection, Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, Call number SC 4539. Over 25 volumes belonging to James R. Mead, on wide range of topics including science, literature and history.
James R. Mead Collection, Mabee Libraries, Washburn University. Over 400 volumes of 19th and early 20th century books on a wide variety of subjects from James R. Mead’s library.
Books
Ellington, William Clark, Jr. James R. Mead. Wichita Public Library Local History Series. Wichita, Kan.: W. Ellington, [1987?]
Long, Richard M. Wichita, 1866-1883: Cradle Days of a Midwestern City. Wichita: [s.n.]1945. http://libcat.wichita.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=551335
Mead, James R. (James Richard), Jones, Schuyler,1930-. Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains, 1859-1875. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1986. http://libcat.wichita.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=497323
Mead, James R. (James Richard), Jones, Schuyler,1930-. Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains, 1859-1875. Wichita, Kan.: Rowfant Press, 2008. http://libcat.wichita.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1354559
Mead, Spencer R. History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont, and Western Pennsylvania, from A.D. 1180 to 1900. [Whitefish, MT]: Kessinger Publishing, 2000? http://libcat.wichita.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1407382
Miner, H. Craig. Wichita: The Early Years, 1865-80. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1982. http://libcat.wichita.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=413899
Tanner, Beccy. Bear Grease, Builders and Bandits: The Men and Women of Wichita's Past. Wichita, Kan.: The Wichita Eagle and Beacon Publishing Co., c1991. http://libcat.wichita.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=606373
Newspapers
Biographical newspaper articles on James R. Mead collected and photocopied by the Kansas Historical Society. Kansans in the News, alphabetical clippings. Vol. 193
Thesis
Klepper, Madaleine Gladys. James R. Mead: An Early Pioneer. Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, Dept. of History, 1930. http://libcat.wichita.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=512222
Websites
Kansas Memory, Kansas Historical Society. http://www.kansasmemory.org/category/5980
Territorial Kansas Online, Kansas Historical Society. http://www.territorialkansasonline.org
