Title: Prairie schooner detours
Description: Firsthand description of two so-called short cuts traveled by the prairie schooners of the pioneers on their way to the gold mines of California.
Subjects: Description and travel, History, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Travel, West (u.s.), description and travel
Places: California National Historic Trail, West (U.S.)
People: Irene Dakin Paden (1888-)