Emigrants on the Overland Trail
Subtitle: the wagon trains of 1848
By: Michael E. LaSalle
Publisher: Truman State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Kirksville, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781935503958; 9781612480213
Subjects: History; Description and travel; Diaries; Sources; Pioneers; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Biography; Frontier and pioneer life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Just five months to get there; title: St. Joseph: a rising star; title: Load the wagons; title: The talk before the walk; title: A vast green sea; title: Indian troubles; title: Independence: a star in decline; title: Through the tallgrass prairie; title: Black beasts, black faces; title: Come, come ye saints; title: The Babylon of the West; title: The sweetness of the sweetwater; title: Les mauvaises terres; title: The great trail forked; title: Snaking through vulcan's workshop; title: Glory, hallelujah, I shall die a rich man yet!; title: The heavenly scent of Oregon pine; title: Time to pay the gatekeeper; title: The end of the journey; title: Epilogue.