The Oregon Trail is still alive
Subtitle: the 1995 photographic retracing of the 1853 trail
By: Ken & Laura Jones.
Contributors: Jones, Laura, 1926-; Myer, Nathaniel.
Edition: Original ed.
Publisher: Systems Co.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Carlsborg, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Myer, Nathaniel -- Diaries.; Myers family.; Jones, Ken, 1925- -- Travel -- Oregon National Historic Trail.; Jones, Laura, 1926- -- Travel -- Oregon National Historic Trail.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon National Historic Trail.; Oregon National Historic Trail -- Description and travel.; Oregon National Historic Trail -- Pictorial works.; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Genres: Diaries.; Pictorial works.
Notes: Includes three stories: a diary of Nathaniel Myer's five and a half month trek which began Mar. 21, 1853 in Farmington, Iowa and ended in Rogue River Valley, Oregon; a diary composed of tape recordings and a journal made by Ken and Laura Jones of their three week trek along the same trail 142 years later; and a story based on reading between the lines of Nathaniel Myer's diary.