South Pass
Subtitle: gateway to a continent
By: Will Bagley
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780806144429; 9780806148427
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Pioneers; Immigrants; Frontier and pioneer life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Great Gate; title: "Daring and intrepid actions" : discovering South Pass, 1812; title: "Marshalling the way" : rediscovering South Pass, 1824; title: "Two fortunes apiece" : the Rocky Mountain fur trade; title: "Unheard-of journey" : missionary couples cross South Pass, 1834-1840; title: "Treading unknown paths" : emigrants and explorers, 1841-1848; title: "The other side of the world" : the Gold Rush, 1849-1855; title: Conflict and catastrophe at South Pass, 1856-1860; title: "Emphatically an emigrant road" : the Lander Cutoff; title: The U.S. mail and the war for South Pass, 1860-1869; title: "Gold, slathers of it" : the rush to South Pass, 1867; title: Afterword: The legacy of South Pass; title: Commemorating South Pass; title: Preservation and protection; title: South Pass National Historical Park : a 1969 vision; title: South Pass today.