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Book Synopsis The California Trail by : George R. Stewart
Download or read book The California Trail written by George R. Stewart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1841 and 1842 small groups of emigrants tried to discover a route to California passable by wagons. Without reliable maps or guides, they pushed ahead, retreated, detoured, split up, and regrouped, reaching their destination only at great cost of property and life. But they had found a trail, or cleared one, and by their mistakes had shown others how to take wagon trains across half a continent. By 1844 a great migration was in progress. Each successive party learned from those who went before where to cross rivers and mountains, when to rest, when to forge ahead, and how to find food and water. Increased experience was translated into better wagon designs, improved understanding of climate and terrain, and better-supplied and -organized caravans. George R. Stewart's California Trail describes the trail's year-by-year changes as weather conditions, new exploration, and the changing character of emigrants affected it. Successes and disasters (like the Donner party's fate) are presented in nearly personal detail. More than a history of the trail, this book tells how to travel it, what it felt like, what was feared and hoped for.
Book Synopsis The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California by : Lansford Warren Hastings
Download or read book The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California written by Lansford Warren Hastings and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
Book Synopsis The Emigrant Trail by : Geraldine Bonner
Download or read book The Emigrant Trail written by Geraldine Bonner and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Emigrant Trail" by Geraldine Bonner is a captivating and evocative novel that follows the trials and triumphs of brave pioneers on their journey along the emigrant trail. Set against the backdrop of the American West during the 19th century, this ebook immerses readers in a gripping tale of courage, hope, and resilience. Bonner's vivid storytelling and authentic portrayal of the hardships faced by emigrants make this ebook a powerful and emotionally resonant read. With its exploration of human endurance and the indomitable spirit of those who dared to seek a better life, "The Emigrant Trail" is a compelling and immersive historical novel.
Book Synopsis HIST SPOTS OLD EDN by : Hero Eugene Rensch
Download or read book HIST SPOTS OLD EDN written by Hero Eugene Rensch and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now in a one-volume revised edition, this encyclopedia of California historical information remains an ideally practical reference to the state."--From the dust-jacket front flap.
Book Synopsis Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail by : Donald K. Grayson
Download or read book Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail written by Donald K. Grayson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How biology influenced the survival of emigrants facing cold and starvation on the western trail
Book Synopsis Emigrant Trails in the Black Rock Desert by : Peggy McGuckian Jones
Download or read book Emigrant Trails in the Black Rock Desert written by Peggy McGuckian Jones and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Prairie Traveler by : Randolph Barnes Marcy
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by New York, Harper. This book was released on 1859 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to survive on the trails to California and Oregon: food, wagon train management, pack animals, bivouacs, Indian fighting, hunting, etc.
Book Synopsis What I Saw in California by : Edwin Bryant
Download or read book What I Saw in California written by Edwin Bryant and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1849 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Old Oregon Trail by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads
Download or read book The Old Oregon Trail written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statements of Hon. A.T. Smith, Hon. Albert Johnson, Hon. N.J. Sinnott, Hon. W.C. Hawley, Hon. J.W. Summers, Hon. J.F. Miller, Hon. U.S. Guyer, Hon. C.E. Winter, Hon. W.G. Sears, Hon. Elton Watkins, Hon. J.G. Strong, Hon. E.O. Leatherwood, Mr. W.C. Markham, Hon. R.G. Simmons, Hon. D.B. Colton.
Book Synopsis Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 by : Weldon W. Rau
Download or read book Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 written by Weldon W. Rau and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1852 overland migration was the largest on record, with numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California. It also was a year in which 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.
Book Synopsis America's National Historic Trails by : Karen Berger
Download or read book America's National Historic Trails written by Karen Berger and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational bucket list for hikers, history buffs, armchair travelers, and all those who wish to walk in the hallowed footsteps of American history. 2020 GOLD WINNER OF THE FOREWORD INDIES AWARD IN HISTORY 2021 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD WINNER From the battlefields of the American Revolution to the trails blazed by the pioneers, lands explored by Lewis and Clark and covered by the Pony Express, to the civil-rights marches of Selma and Montgomery, this is the official book of the country's 19 National Historic Trails. These trails range from 54 miles to more than 5,000 and feature historic and interpretive sites to be explored on foot and sometimes by paddle, sail, bicycle, horse, or by car on backcountry roads. Totaling 37,000 miles through 41 states, our entire national experience comes to life on these trails--from Native American history to the settlement of the colonies, westward expansion, and civil rights--and they are beautifully depicted in this large-format volume.
Book Synopsis Pony Express National Historic Trail by : Anthony Godfrey
Download or read book Pony Express National Historic Trail written by Anthony Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Graves and Sites on the Oregon and California Trails by : Randy Brown
Download or read book Graves and Sites on the Oregon and California Trails written by Randy Brown and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular guide describes the markers installed by the Oregon-California Trails Association's Graves and Sites Committee, providing a comprehensive compilation and description of the trail's fading remnants. For each sign, the book contains directions, the exact text, general background, and access ownership, arranged in sequence from east to west.
Book Synopsis The Opening of the California Trail by : George R. Stewart
Download or read book The Opening of the California Trail written by George R. Stewart and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.
Book Synopsis Historic Resource Study by : Anthony Godfrey
Download or read book Historic Resource Study written by Anthony Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The intent of this Historic Resource Study (HRS) of the Pony Express National Historic Trail is threefold: 1) to provide basic information to assist in the preparation of the trail comprehensive management plan (CMP) and to manage and interpret the trail, 2) to furnish National Park Service (NPS) managers and planners, state and local authorities, private landowners, and cooperating groups with an extensive trail database for action plans and implementation activities for the Pony Express National Historic Trail, and 3) to give to the public a general history of the Central Overland California & Pike's Peak Express Company (C.O.C. & P.P. Express Co.) otherwise known as the Pony Express"--Preface excerpt, page [i].
Book Synopsis Land of Enchantment by : Marion Sloan Russell
Download or read book Land of Enchantment written by Marion Sloan Russell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1985-01-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facsimile edition of one of the few accounts of life on the trail.
Book Synopsis Assembling California by : John McPhee
Download or read book Assembling California written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.