Download or read book Emigrant Trails West written by Richard K. Brock and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emigrant Trails West written by Devere Helfrich and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Going Along the Emigrant Trails written by Barbara Fifer and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the experiences of families heading west across prairies, mountains, and dangerous rivers to start a new life from the 1850s to the mid-1860s.

Download or read book Emigrant Trails West written by Richard K. Brock and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Guide to the Applegate Trail written by Richard K. Brock and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A guide to the route followed by overland emigrants to California and Oregon during the 1840's, '50's, and '60's. The route starts at Lassen Meadows and ends in Southern Oregon."

Download or read book The California Trail written by George R. Stewart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book 1830 1870 Western emigrant trails major trails cutoffs and alternates written by James Allen Bier and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Overland written by Greg MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book A Guide to the Yreka Trail written by Richard K. Brock and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: $22.00 price includes shipping & handling

Download or read book A Guide to the Nobles Trail written by Bob Black and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and 1850s.

Download or read book The Nobles Emigrant Trail written by Ken Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Nobles pioneered the Nobles Trail in 1851 providing a shortcut between the Applegate Trail in Nevada and the last section of the Lassen Trail in California. This books provides both the history of the trail and a guide to driving it today.

Download or read book Emigrants on the Overland Trail written by Michael E. LaSalle and published by Truman State Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Emigrant s Guide to Oregon and California written by Lansford Warren Hastings and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Prairie Traveler written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Guide to the California Trail written by Richard K. Brock and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: $22.00 price includes shipping & handling

Download or read book Seven Trails West written by Arthur King Peters and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lewis and Clark expedition blazed the way; nearly 65 years later, the first transcontinental railroad joined the "old" United States with the West. The intervening years had seen a half-million people heading west. Peters surveys the major migration routes: the Santa Fe Trail (commercial), the Oregon-California Trail (probably the best known), the Mormon Trail and the communication trails (Pony Express, Telegraph, Railroad). Peters (Cocteau and His Circle) draws on personal experiences of the emigrants, newspaper articles of the period and local history for a colorful account of the westward movement. His stories of the Mormon Trail and Pony Express are especially notable. This handsome book is illustrated with photographs, paintings, maps and documents-a treat for history and Western buffs. 208 illustrations

Download or read book Historic Inscriptions on Western Emigrant Trails written by Randy Brown and published by Oregon California Trails Assn. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I left mine where every traveler would see it I had friends behind and I wished them to know that I was still ahead."--Richard Keen, in his diary Overlanders inscribed their names and messages along the trail. Much of this graffiti--often intended as a beacon--survives today. Based on years of research, Brown's work includes names, locations, dates, diary entries, and biographical information.