Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Pullman :
Washington State University Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3848835 |
Table of Contents:
- Leaving home
- Across the wide Missouri
- Cholera
- On to Fort Laramie
- Child's Cutoff
- Sweetwater Valley
- Sublette Cutoff
- Bear River to Fort Hall
- Along the Snake
- Blue Mountains
- At last The Dalles
- Final effort
- Pioneering.