The Oregon Trail
Subtitle: an American saga
By: David Dary.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195334005
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon National Historic Trail; Oregon National Historic Trail -- History; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : Knopf, c2004.
Table of contents: title: The exploration of Oregon; title: Astoria; title: Discovering the Oregon Trail; title: John McLoughlin and the missionaries; title: The American occupation of Oregon; title: The emigrants of 1843; title: Self-rule and more emigrants; title: Fifty-four forty or fight; title: The year of decision; title: New Zion, more emigrants, and a massacre; title: A lull before the rush; title: The gold rush of 1849; title: The hectic year of 1850; title: The changing road; title: More change and civil war; title: Decline of the trail; title: Rebirth of the trail.