Title: Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852
First published: 2001
Description: "With numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers and gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year when deadly cholera took a terrible toll in lives. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman, released for the first time in book-length form.".

"In its immediacy, Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 opens a window to the travails of the emigrants - their stark camps, treacherous river crossings, and dishonest countrymen; the shimmering plains and mountain vastnesses; their trepidation at crossing ancient Indian lands; and the dark angel of death hovering over the wagon columns. But also found here are acts of valor, compassion, and kindness, and the hope for a new life in a new land at the end of the trail."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Description and travel, Diaries, Frontier and pioneer life, Pioneers, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Biography, History, Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), Oregon national historic trail, West (u.s.), description and travel, West (u.s.), biography
Places: West (U.S.), Oregon National Historic Trail
People: Mary Ann Boatman, Willis Boatman
Time periods: 1848-1860
LC classification: F597 .R28 2001