num_pages: 858
description: Collected here for the first time ever are the surviving eyewitness accounts of the Bozeman's Trail's civilian twenty-four diaries written during the journey and nine reminiscences prepared afterward. These accounts describe life on the West's last great emigrant trail, the shortcut from the Platte River Road to the Montana goldfields, from 1863 until 1866, when the route was closed by "Red Cloud's War." Ample introductions, extensive annotation, historical illustrations, and detailed maps enrich this oversized, two-volume compendium.
language: English
title: Journeys to the Land of Gold: Emigrant Diaries from the Bozeman Trail, 1863-1866
titlecomplete: Journeys to the Land of Gold: Emigrant Diaries from the Bozeman Trail, 1863-1866
publisher: Montana Historical Society Press