Bound for Montana
Bound for Montana

Author: Susan Badger Doyle

Publisher: Montana Historical Society

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780917298981

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Bound for Montana is an abridgement of the prize-winning two volume series, Journeys to the Land of Gold. The abridgement includes diary and journal excerpts from travelers moving overland in the 1860s, bound for Montana.

The Bozeman Trail
The Bozeman Trail

Author: Grace Raymond Hebard

Publisher:

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13:

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Recounts the federal government's attempt to open a road north from the Oregon Trail through the Powder River country, hunting grounds of the Sioux, in the late 1860s. Containing previously unpublished narratives, this work has served as a valuable reference tool for students of the Northern Plains.

Circle the Wagons!
Circle the Wagons!

Author: Gregory F. Michno

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2008-10-17

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0786439971

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It’s a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne’s face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against Indian attacks. This book examines actual and fictional wagon-train battles and compares them for realism. It also describes how fledgling Hollywood portrayed the concept of westward migration but, as the evolving industry became more accurate in historical detail, how filmmakers then lost sight of the big picture.

Saleratus & Sagebrush
Saleratus & Sagebrush

Author: Robert Lee Munkres

Publisher: Equine Graphics Publishing Group

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781887932905

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The Bidwell-Bartleson party may have been generally forgotten, but the group was the first true emigrant train to cross South Pass. If the memories of these men has dimmed, the road they followed has not, for the route is one of the most famous in the history of human migration-the Oregon Trail. Saleratus & Sagebrush chronicles the journeys of these and many other emigrants on the trails west. Robert Munkres relates the stories about the famous and indispensable Fort Bridger and Fort Laramie, the fork in the road at Soda Springs, women's lives on the trail, the family dog, and tales of Indians, friendly and not-so-friendly are richly enhanced by photographs and several reproductions of works by William Henry Jackson.