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Author: Barbara Fifer
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1560373547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes 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: Lansford Warren Hastings
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1557092451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished 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: Geraldine Bonner
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-29
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 3752366192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner
Author: Geraldine Bonner
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Greg MacGregor
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt 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: George R. Stewart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780803291430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: William James Ghent
Publisher:
Published: 1934
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne J. Miller Ph. D.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1477211497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique story of the Southern Emigrant Trail through Riverside County, based almost entirely on historic records, identifies the location of the trail and tells the stories of those who traveled along the route or lived in the area during the mid-1800s. Surveyors' field notes, newspaper articles, diaries and journals, military records, censuses, and many other records provide the reader the opportunity to "experience" this exciting era in Southern California history. Detailed maps with the route and other information are included along with many historic and current photographs.
Author: Bonner Geraldine
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2016-06-23
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9781318844944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Geraldine Bonner
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-19
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780483422438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Emigrant Trail My father and I are going to California and the train we were going with has gone on. We've come from Rochester, New York, and everywhere we've been delayed and kept back. Even that boat up from St. Louis was five days behind time. It's been nothing but disappointments and delays since we left home. And when we got here the people we were going with - a big train from Northern New York - had gone on and left us. She said all this rapidly, poured it out as if she were so full of the injury and annoyance of it, that she had to ease her indignation by letting it run over into the first pair of sympathetic ears. David's were a very good pair. Any woman with a tale of trouble would have found him a champion. How much more a fresh-faced young creature with a melodious voice and anxious eyes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
