The following material records much of the “early exploration” of the Black Range.
- Wislizenus: Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico, Connected with Col. Doniphan’s Expedition, in 1846 and 1847; A. Wislizenus, MD; Senate report printed on January 13, 1848.
- United States Biological Survey: United States Biological Survey: A Compendium of its History, Personalities, Impacts, and Conflicts; Ed. by Schmidly, Tydeman, and Gardner; Special Publications of the Museum of Texas Tech University, No. 64
- Pattie: The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky; Edited by Timothy Flint, 1831
- Volume 1; Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey; William H. Emory, 1857; This is the overview of the survey and the record of survey activities.
- Volume 1; Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey; William H. Emory, 1857; Part II (Two);This is the overview of the survey and the record of the geology and paleontology findings.
- Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey; George Englemann; 1859; This volume covers the “Cactacea of the Boundary”
- Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey; 1859; This volume covers the “Reptiles of the Boundary” (by Spencer F. Baird) and the “Ichthyology of the Boundary” (by Charles Girard)
- Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey; 1859; This volume covers the “Mammals of the Boundary” (by Spencer F. Baird) and the “Birds of the Boundary” (by Spencer F. Baird)
- Volume 2; Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey; William H. Emory; 1859. (This report covers the “Botany of the Boundary” (Part I) and the “Zoology of the Boundary” (Part II) - (Part Two)
- Emory: United States and Mexican Boundary Survey; Reptiles of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird
- Emory: Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California; W. H. Emory; 1848
- The Mines of Kingston, New Mexico - The Center of the Famous Percha District; Kingston Tribune; 1883
- The English Work of the MEC in Hillsboro, Lake Valley, & Kingston; Steinsiek; 2008
- Annals of Old Fort Cummings, New Mexico, 1867-8; by William Thornton Parker; 1916
- Cooke's Peak - Pasaron Por Aqui -- A focus on United States History in Southwestern New Mexico; Couchman; Cultural Resources No. 7, Bureau of Land Management; 1990
- Field Notes of Charles Wright for 1849 and 1851-52, relating to collections from Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and adjacent Sonora and Chihuahua; transcribed by Ivan M. Johnston; 1940
- Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Connected With the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission During the Years 1850, ’51, ’52, and ’53. John Russell Bartlett.
- Southwestern Localities Visited by Charles Wright; Elmer Ottis Wooton; Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Nov. 1906; Vol. 33, No. 11; pp 561-566
- Plantæ Wrightianæ - Texano-Neo-Mexicanae: An Account of a Collection of Plants Made by Charles Wright… ; Asa Wright; 1853
- Report of explorations for that portion of a railroad route : near the thirty-second parallel of north latitude, lying between Dona Ana, on the Rio Grande, and Pimas Villages, on the Gila / by John G. Parke / 1854
- Survey of the United States Mexico Boundary 1849-1855; Lenard E. Brown; Division of History, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, USDOI, 1969
- The Narrative of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; Translated by Buckingham Smith; 1851
- Report of The Secretary of War, Communicating the Answer to a Resolution of the Senate - A Report and Map of The Examination of New Mexico Made by Lieutenant J. W. Abert - Abert 1848, report on his activities in 1846
- George Archibald McCall; "Report of The Secretary of War, Communicating In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, Colonel McCall’s reports in relation to New Mexico”, February 10, 1851
- Rambles of a Botanist in New Mexico; Edward Lee Greene; The American Naturalist; March 1878
- Reports of Explorations and Surveys.... Volume X. 1859 of the U. S. Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys 38th, 39th, 41st Parallels
- Antiquities of the Upper Gila and Salt River Valleys in Arizona and New Mexico; Walter Hough; Bureau of American Ethnology, 1907
- National Academy of Sciences; Biographical Memoir Grove Karl Gilbert, published in 1922
- "Frank Stephens: A century-ago birder in New Mexico”; January 1976; NMOS Bulletin 4(2-3):13-17, 1976; John P. Hubbard