Title: The way west
First published: 1949
Description: A hundred-odd men, women, and children gathered at the rendezvous a few miles outside of Independence. They were solid, established folk, most of them, and they were leaving behind prosperous farms and businesses because they shared a dream about the rich lands in the West, where a man, his wife, and their young ones might make a better life and a new world more desirable than any Americans before them had ever known.
Subjects: Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Indians of North America, Travel, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Large type books, Fiction, westerns, West (u.s.), fiction, Historical fiction
Places: Oregon National Historic Trail