Overland
Subtitle: the California emigrant trail of 1841-1870
By: Greg MacGregor ; introduction by Walter Truett Anderson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Overland journeys to the Pacific.; Overland Trails.; California National Historic Trail.; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.; Overland Trails -- Pictorial works.; California National Historic Trail -- Pictorial works.
Description: It has been over 150 years since pioneers first went west from Missouri, across Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Nevada into California, across the vast plains, formidable mountains, and desert. Although the route known as the California Emigrant Trail is mostly unmarked today, much evidence remains. Photographer Greg MacGregor has researched the trail and traveled it for thousands of miles. He has photographed the eroded ruts, emigrant graves, pieces of burned and abandoned wagons.

He has also photographed what has sprung up over the trail: KOA campgrounds, golf courses, housing developments. The images are poignant, sometimes amusing, occasionally downright terrifying, and always fascinating in what they reveal about pioneer overland travel.

. Showing these photographs with excerpts from emigrants' diaries and advice from nineteenth-century guidebooks, Greg MacGregor presents us with a vivid and intimate picture of what the journey was like for those with no idea of what lay ahead. At the same time he captures the ironies in the landscape of the late-twentieth-century West.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Photographing the Overland Trail; title: The Overland Trail : history and overview; title: The Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska crossing; title: The Wyoming crossing; title: The Nevada crossing; title: California.