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Author: James Akin
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the spring of 1852 a small party started from south-eastern Iowa to journey overland to Oregon. The little group consisted of four families ... With the party was a young man about eighteen years of age, James Akin Jr., who kept a brief journal of the trip in which he recorded the daily happenings"--Page 3.
Author: James Akin
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere were two families Richey, as well as an Akin and an Ingram, who had been neighbors and friends for years. The families intermarried. A fourth family appears when Alice Booth married a Richey in 1843 in Henry Co., Iowa. In 1852 the families decided to move to Oregon in wagons on the emigrant trail. This is a diary recorded by 19-year- old James Akin, Jr., the eldest of the children.
Author: Akin James
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781022010635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis diary provides an intimate glimpse into the life of a young man living on the frontier in the mid-19th century. James Akin describes his work, his relationships, and his struggles in vivid detail, painting a picture of life in a small Illinois town during a tumultuous period in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Edward Everett Dale
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-08
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781356036998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Weldon Willis Rau
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Published: 2021-08-03
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1636820646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives mainly due to deadly cholera. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman, released for the first time in book-length form. In its immediacy, Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 opens a window to the travails of the overland journeyers--their stark camps, treacherous river fordings, and dishonest countrymen; the shimmering plains and mountain vastnesses; trepidation at crossing ancient Indian lands; and the dark angel of death hovering over the wagon columns. But also found here are acts of valor, compassion, and kindness, and the hope for a new life in a new land at the end of the trail.
Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 266
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Wesley Smith
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John D. Unruh
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9780252063602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and illustrations contained in the 1979 cloth edition.
Author: Robert Stuart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780803292345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Stuart saw the American West a few years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and, like them, kept a journal of his epic experience. A partner in John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company, the Scotsman shipped for Oregon aboard the Tonquin in 1810 and helped found the ill-fated settlement of Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River. In 1812, facing disaster, Stuart and six others slipped away from Astoria and headed east. His journal, edited and annotated by Philip Ashton Rollins, describes their hazardous 3,700-mile journey to St. Louis. Crossing the Rockies in winter, they faced death by cold, starvation, and hostile Indians. But they made history by discovering what came to be called the Oregon Trail, including South Pass, over which thousands of emigrants would travel west in mid-century. Besides Stuart’s narrative, this volume contains important material about Astoria and the fate of the Tonquin, as well as the harrowing account of Wilson Price Hunt, who headed a party of overlanders traveling east to join the Astorians.
