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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Главный автор: Rau, Weldon W.
Другие авторы: Boatman, Mary Ann, Boatman, Willis
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Pullman : Washington State University Press, ©2001.
Серии:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Online-ссылка:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3848835
Оглавление:
  • 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.