Oregon Trail

Summary: I have sought with camera and original eyewitness accounts to present a cross-country view portraying the geographic and human spectacle along the entire Oregon Trail. The exclusive use of entries from emigrant diaries and journals provides a personal, untranslated contact with a famous yesterday. From this eyewitness record, organized chronologically and geographically, we learn the day-by-day experiences of the people who dared enter an unpeopled land." ~From the Preface.

Record details

ISBN: 0528818112
Physical Description: 224 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Rand McNally, [1973]
Copyright: [©1972]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Extracts from contemporary accounts, together with photographs taken by the compiler.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 223) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Forward -- Oregon chronology -- Jumping-off places -- Roads west -- Hail to Oregon! -- Land of milk and honey -- Bibliography -- Index.