Book Description
A new American journey.
Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1451659164
A new American journey.
Author : George Washington Martin
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Oregon Territory
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 1925
Category : House document (United States. Congress. House)
ISBN :
Statements of Hon. A.T. Smith, Hon. Albert Johnson, Hon. N.J. Sinnott, Hon. W.C. Hawley, Hon. J.W. Summers, Hon. J.F. Miller, Hon. U.S. Guyer, Hon. C.E. Winter, Hon. W.G. Sears, Hon. Elton Watkins, Hon. J.G. Strong, Hon. E.O. Leatherwood, Mr. W.C. Markham, Hon. R.G. Simmons, Hon. D.B. Colton.
Author : Jesse Wiley
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1328560945
The fourth and final installment in this choose-your-own-trail series takes you all the way to Oregon Territory—if you make the right choices. The end of the Oregon Trail is near, young pioneer—the final leg of your journey starts here. But, do you have the grit to make it to Oregon City? The wild frontier is full of risks and unpredictable surprises! It's 1850 and you've been traveling for more than three months with your family, covered wagon, and oxen. There are holes in the bottoms of your shoes. You've faced grizzly bears, traded with merchants, and wild bandits. Oregon City is so close you can taste it, but there are still weeks of dangerous frontier travel ahead of you. So which path will you choose? With twenty-two possible endings, every decision counts!
Author : Lansford Warren Hastings
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 1557092451
Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Oregon National Historic Trail
ISBN :
Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1401305776
Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought an old Piper Cub, restored it themselves, and set out on the grand journey. Buck is a great storyteller, and once you get airborne with the boys you find yourself absorbed in a story of adventure and family drama. And Flight of Passage is also an affecting look back to the summer of 1966, when the times seemed much less cynical and adventures much more enjoyable.
Author : Harold L. James
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2011
Category : California
ISBN : 9781893061088
"Bruff's Wake tells the story of forty-niners who survived hardship with resolve and endurance. The accompanying illustrations, which include a number of Bruff's sketches paired with modern photographs taken at the same sites, give vivid depictions of life and death on the California Trail in 1849. In addition, Bruff's route is correlated to the geography of the modern era, so that the trail can be traced on modern maps. Taken together, the narrative, sketches, photographs, and geological descriptions of the terrain, coupled with generous quotes from Bruff's long-out-of-print journal, allow the reader to follow in Bruff's wake" -- Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300153511
This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History
Author : John D. Unruh
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252063602
The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and illustrations contained in the 1979 cloth edition.