Route across the Rocky Mountains
By: by Overton Johnson and William H. Winter.
Contributors: Winter, William H., 1819-1879 joint author.
Series: March of America facsimile series; no. 82
Publisher: University Microfilms
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Ann Arbor [Mich.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.; Pacific States -- Description and travel.; West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848.
Description: "In the 1840's in the farmhouses of Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa excitement about a new frontier in the far west was causing much talk. Soon "Oregon fever" was running high and emigrants were discussing the best way of getting to the new promised land on the Pacific coast... By 1843 a great wave of emigration had set in, and wagon trains were stretched out along the "Oregon Trail" all the way from Independence Missouri... to the Columbia River. Two of the participants in the great migration of 1843 were Overton Johnson and William H. Winter, who wrote a narrative of their journey and a description of the country for the benefit of future travelers"--Foreward.
Notes: Original t.p. reads: Route across the Rocky Mountains, with a description of Oregon and California; their geographical features, their resources, soil, climate, productions, &c., &c., by Overton Johnson and Wm. H. Winter, of the emigration of 1843. Lafayette, Ind., John B. Semans, printer, 1846.
"The route to California, the description of that country, and the return from it to Fort Hall, are from the notes of Wm. H. Winter."--Pref.