num_pages: 592
description: One of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in History and the winner of seven awards, including the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, the Ray A. Billington Book Award of the Organization of American Historians, and the National Historical Society Book Prize.
language: English
title: The Plains Across : The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
titlecomplete: The Plains Across : The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
genres: History, American History, Westerns, The United States Of America, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 77
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: John H. Dunning Prize in American History, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Ohioana Book Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Ray Allen Billington Prize, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: History
publisher: University of Illinois Press