Wagon roads west
Author : William Turrentine Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : William Turrentine Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802199143
An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian). In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain men as guides, these pioneers literally plunged into the unknown, braving all manner of danger, including hunger, thirst, disease, and drowning. Employing numerous illustrations and extensive primary sources, including original diaries and memoirs, McLynn underscores the incredible heroism and dangerous folly on the overland trails. His authoritative narrative investigates the events leading up to the opening of the trails, the wagons and animals used, the roles of women, relations with Native Americans, and much else. The climax arrives in McLynn’s expertly re-created tale of the dreadful Donner party, and he closes with Brigham Young and the Mormons beginning communities of their own. Full of high drama, tragedy, and triumph, “rarely has a book so wonderfully brought to life the riveting tales of Americans’ trek to the Pacific” (Publishers Weekly).
Author : Ellen Levine
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 1992-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780808579236
For use in schools and libraries only. Answers questions about what it was like to travel to the Oregon Territory by covered wagon, crossing rivers, mountains, and prairie.
Author : Cody Assmann
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780578724379
In 1844 mountain man Jemmey Fletcher's life has completely changed. The fur trade is done, the shinin' times are over, and the wild and exciting life of a mountain man is in its last days. Turning back to the civilization he thought he left behind him, Jemmey meets up with a wagon train in Independence, Missouri and hires on to guide the pioneers across the vastness of the west. Along the way, Jemmey and the emigrants battle prairie storms, attempt dangerous river crossings, and endure the hardships of the Oregon Trail. Although most of the settlers fear bands of Native Americans and wildness of the Great American desert, the deadliest threat can be found in their own camp.
Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1451659164
A new American journey.
Author : Keith Heyer Meldahl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226923290
The dramatic journeys of the 19th century Gold Rush come to life in this geologist’s tour of the American West and the events that shaped the land. In 1848, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. The dramatic terrain these settlers crossed is so familiar to us now that it is hard to imagine how frightening—even godforsaken—its sheer rock faces and barren deserts once seemed to them. Hard Road West brings their perspective vividly to life, weaving together the epic overland journey of the covered wagon trains and the compelling story of the landscape they encountered. Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Trail, Keith Meldahl uses settler’s diaries and letters—as well as his own experiences on the trail—to reveal how the geology and geography of the West shaped our nation’s westward expansion. He guides us through a landscape of sawtooth mountains, following the meager streams that served as lifelines through an arid land, all the way to California itself, where colliding tectonic plates created breathtaking scenery and planted the gold that lured travelers west in the first place. “Alternates seamlessly between vivid accounts of the 19th-century journey and lucid explanations of the geological events that shaped the landscape traveled.”—Library Journal
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,92 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 : Arthur King Peters
Publisher : Abbeville Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780789206787
Major routes that linked the country to the Far West are explored by Peters, including the trail blazed by Lewis and Clark, the Santa Fe Trail, and others. Illustrations.
Author : Charles Baley
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2002-06
Category : History
ISBN :
Army representatives in New Mexico were more enthusiastic about the road's readiness."
Author : John Disturnell
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 1849
Category : West (U.S.)
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