num_pages: 565
description: Synthesizes the phenomenon that sent a quarter of a million antebellum pioneers westward, focusing on the interactions between them.
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: The United States Of America, American History, Nonfiction, History, Westerns
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