Author: Edward Leo Lyman
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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"Historian Edward Leo Lyman has provided the first history of the complete Southern Route, and of the people who developed and used it. Based on extensive research in primary sources - including many early travelers accounts - and on Lyman's own investigation of the route and its branches, the book discusses the exploration and development of the Old Spanish Trail. Its horse thieves and traders, including Jedediah Smith and Kit Carson, along with government explorer John C. Fremont. Developing the old pack mule trail as a wagon road between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, miners heading for the California gold fields first used the route extensively.
Author: Horace Greeley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Author: David Lavender
Publisher: National Park Service Division of Publications
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Author: Horace Greeley
Publisher: Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms
ISBN:
Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Journal of Horace Greeley's journey from New York to San Francisco in 1859.
Author: E. S. Ingalls
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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"Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51" by E. S. Ingalls. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Banyer Clarkson
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Description of his travels from New York to California via Chicago, Denver and Salt Lake City, by rail, stage and steamer; meeting with Brigham Young; extnsive excursions in California, including visit to Yosemite and to Oregon; visit to Virginia City and to gold mines in Nevada; return to New York.
Author: Frank Albert Root
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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"One of the most valuable narratives of the overland stage. As the agent of the postal department, Root oversaw the transportation of the mail over the great stage line ... The narrative is packed with anecdotes and details and is abundantly illustrated"--Bookdealer's description.
Author: David Sievert Lavender
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780912627021
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Author: U. S. National Park Service
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484862417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Excerpt from The Overland Migrations: Settlers to Oregon, California, and Utah The busy outfitters of the neighboring towns of Independence and Westport, Missouri - merchants, innkeepers, blacksmiths, saddlers, and the rest - had never before seen such a crowd of movers as the one that poured through their muddy streets in the spring of 1843. Not that the frontier businessmen weren't used to travelers. Each spring for the past 20 years specially built freight wagons had been traveling from Missouri along the famed Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico and, some of them, on south as far as Chihuahua. But the sinewy roustabouts and the Mexican and American proprietors of those caravans were entirely male - adventurers, not set tlers seeking new homes. By fall most would be back with the bars of gold and silver bullion, the jingling silver pesos, the sacks of coarse wool, and the herds of fine Spanish mules that were the fruit of their bartering. This influx was different. Numbering close to a thousand persons, it was composed for the most part of families. Members ranged in age from an occasional grandfather and grandmother down to a scattering of babes - even unborn babes to judge from the appearance of a few of the women. They planned to journey to the Pacific Coast - more than twice as far as Santa Fe - ih ordinary farm wagons covered with flimsy roofs of canvas. What was more, none of those setting forth that year intended, at least at the outset, to come back again. When news of this gathering reached New York, Horace Greeley, editor of the influential Tribune, picked up his pen in amazement. Years later, Gree ley would advise the youth of the nation, Go west, young man, and grow up with the country. In 1843, however, he wasn't ready for so radical an idea. Instead he wrote scornfully, This migration of more than a thousand persons in one body to Oregon wears an aspect of insanity. 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.
Author: Lannon W. Mintz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Bibliography of published diaries, journals and reminiscences of those who traveled up to 2,000 miles west along the overland trail.
