Author: Barbara Fifer
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1560373547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Greg MacGregor
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Photographer Greg MacGregor has researched the California Emigrant Trail and traveled it for thousands of miles. He has 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.
Author: Richard K. Brock
Publisher:
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780970702319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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."
Author: George R. Stewart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780803291430
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Geraldine Bonner
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-29
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 3752366192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner
Author: Marshall Fey
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781889243146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ken Johnston
Publisher:
Published: 2018-08
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781941052310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Richard K. Brock
Publisher:
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780970702395
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