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| Author | : Greg MacGregor |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
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.
| Author | : Waterman L. Ormsby |
| Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2018-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1789125588 |
This is the classic firsthand account by Waterman L. Ormsby, a reporter who in 1858 crossed the western states as the sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. Ormsby’s reports, which soon appeared in the New York Herald, are lively and exciting. He describes the journey in close detail, giving full accounts of the accommodations, the other passengers, the country through which they passed, the dangers to which they were exposed, and the constant necessity for speed. “A most interesting account of the first westbound trip of an overland mail stage.”—Southern California Historical Society Quarterly “The best narrative of the trip and one of the best accounts of western travel by stage.”—Pacific Historical Review “If other travelers had been as careful and observant as Ormsby we should know vastly more about our country and the ways of our fathers than we do...The book is fascinating. It will prove interesting to all who care for travelogues, the history of the West, and particularly to those interested in our economic history.”—Journal of Economic History
| Author | : John Mack Faragher |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2008-10-01 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Horace Greeley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 1860 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Michael E. LaSalle |
| Publisher | : Truman State Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781935503958 |
Presenting the “lost” year of the overland emigrants in 1848, this volume sheds light on the journey of the men, women, children, and the wagon trains that made the challenging trek from Missouri to Oregon and California. These primary sources, written by seven men and women diarists from different wagon companies, tell how settlers endured the tribulations of a five-month westward journey covering 2,000 miles. These intrepid souls include a young mother, a French priest, a college-educated teacher, and an ox driver. Subjected to the extremes of fear, failure, suffering, and hope, they persevered and finally triumphed.
| Author | : Lorenzo D. Aldrich |
| Publisher | : Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 1966 |
| Genre | : California |
| ISBN | : |
"Most of the accounts of the early overland trips across the American continent after the discovery of gold in California describe the middle route, usually with St. Louis or one of the towns in that area as the staging point for the journey westward. Lorenzo D. Aldrich's A Journal of the Overland Route to California, a very rare tract, describes the southern route from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to San Diego, California. It is one of the earliest reports of this route"--Foreward.
| Author | : Harlan Hague |
| Publisher | : Arthur H. Clark Company |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
"Attempting to fill an empty space in western literature, this book then is concerned with the search for and use of the southern overland route to California from the earliest Spanish penetration into the present United States Southwest to 1849, just before the country was inundated, comparitively speaking, by California bound argonauts"--Pref.
| Author | : Edwin Bryant |
| Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 1849 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Lansford Warren Hastings |
| Publisher | : Applewood Books |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Dennis G. Casebier |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Mohave Indians |
| ISBN | : 9780914224044 |
Presents a history of the Mojave Road, originally an Indian trail, from the first explorations in the 1820s to its years as a wagon road in the 1870s and 80s, focusing on that portion of the road from the California Desert to the Colorado River.
