The Plains Across
Subtitle: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: August 1, 1982
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780252009686
Subjects: Psychology; United States - 19th Century/Old West; History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); General; History - U.S.; Frontier and pioneer life; History; Overland journeys to the Pacific; The West (U.S.); West (U.S.)
First sentence: BEFORE SIXTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH WILLIAMS left his Indiana home in 1841 to make the long trek overland to the Oregon country, his friends sought to dissuade him by emphasizing the many dangers and difficulties surely waiting him from Indians and wild beasts in the intervening regions.