A Guide to the California Trail Along the Humboldt River
Author : Herman Zittel
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
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ISBN : 9781733317054
Author : Herman Zittel
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
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ISBN : 9781733317054
Author : Donald E. Buck
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2020-01-31
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ISBN : 9781733317016
This publication is one of the Emigrant Trails West Series of guidebooks that follow the Trails West markers placed on the trails used by emigrants traveling overland to northern California and western Oregon during the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.
Author : Bob Black
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Page : pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2021-05-31
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ISBN : 9781733317047
This publication is one of the Emigrant Trails West Series of guidebooks that follow the Trails West markers placed on the trails used by emigrants traveling overland to northern California and western Oregon during the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.
Author : Richard K. Brock
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Page : 194 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : California National Historic Trail
ISBN : 9780970702357
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Author : Richard K. Brock
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Page : 225 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Automobile travel
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Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803291430
In 1841 and 1842 small groups of emigrants tried to discover a route to California passable by wagons. Without reliable maps or guides, they pushed ahead, retreated, detoured, split up, and regrouped, reaching their destination only at great cost of property and life. But they had found a trail, or cleared one, and by their mistakes had shown others how to take wagon trains across half a continent. By 1844 a great migration was in progress. Each successive party learned from those who went before where to cross rivers and mountains, when to rest, when to forge ahead, and how to find food and water. Increased experience was translated into better wagon designs, improved understanding of climate and terrain, and better-supplied and -organized caravans. George R. Stewart's California Trail describes the trail's year-by-year changes as weather conditions, new exploration, and the changing character of emigrants affected it. Successes and disasters (like the Donner party's fate) are presented in nearly personal detail. More than a history of the trail, this book tells how to travel it, what it felt like, what was feared and hoped for.
Author : William E. Hill
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
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Author : Kenneth Burton
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2016-04-07
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ISBN : 9781941624050
Author : Stewart Edward White
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 1918
Category : California
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Author : Greg MacGregor
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
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It has been over 150 years since pioneers first went west from Missouri, across Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Nevada into California, across the vast plains, formidable mountains, and desert. Although the route known as the California Emigrant Trail is mostly unmarked today, much evidence remains. Photographer Greg MacGregor has researched the trail and traveled it for thousands of miles. He has photographed the eroded ruts, emigrant graves, pieces of burned and abandoned wagons. He has also photographed what has sprung up over the trail: KOA campgrounds, golf courses, housing developments. The images are poignant, sometimes amusing, occasionally downright terrifying, and always fascinating in what they reveal about pioneer overland travel. Showing these photographs with excerpts from emigrants' diaries and advice from nineteenth-century guidebooks, Greg MacGregor presents us with a vivid and intimate picture of what the journey was like for those with no idea of what lay ahead. At the same time he captures the ironies in the landscape of the late-twentieth-century West.