Skip to content
University of Oklahoma Press
Connect With Us
  • University of Oklahoma Press
  • Books
    • Column
      • New & Recent Releases
      • Forthcoming Books
      • Subjects
      • Authors
      • Catalogs
    • Column
      • Award Winning Books
        • 2021 Award Winners
        • Recent Award Winners
      • Series
        • University of Oklahoma Press Series
        • The Arthur H. Clark Company Series
    • Column
      • Imprints
        • The Arthur H. Clark Company
      • Distributed Publishers
  • Resources
    • Column
      • For Authors
      • Meet Our Editors
        • Andrew Berzanskis
        • Alessandra Jacobi Tamulevich
        • Joe Schiller
    • Columns
      • For Booksellers
        • Ordering Information
        • Returns Policy
        • Sales Representation
    • Columns
  • News & Events
  • About
  • Contact
    • Column
      • Ordering Information
      • Media Requests
      • Staff Directory
    • Column
      • Rights and Permissions
      • Examination and Desk Copies

Overland West Series

About the Series

The great nineteenth-century westward migration remains an enduring American legacy. From the moment the first organized party set out from Independence, Missouri, in 1841, overland emigrants often recognized that they were engaged in the most significant experience of their lives. A few wrote letters from the trail or kept diaries and journals on their trek to the Pacific, while many others recorded their recollections and memoirs. These documents preserve a record of how ordinary people accomplished an extraordinary task. This new four-volume series is a comprehensive narrative history of overland travel from 1840 to 1870, including new light on the relations between emigrants and the first peoples to live between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean. Travelers crossing the continent encountered a surprising mix of cultures, including the Mexicans who built the adobe trading posts like Fort Laramie, the Polynesians who manned the Hudson’s Bay Company’s forts, and the French-Americans and former slaves who comprised the majority of the fur trade’s “mountain men.” In contrast to Hollywood stereotypes, their journals show that the first overland travelers relied on the knowledge and help of local tribes to make their trek. Only after the trails began to destroy the resources Indians depended upon for survival did conflict became more common than cooperation. This is a story of triumph and tragedy, for the achievements of the pioneers came at great cost to themselves and even greater cost to the original inhabitants of the West. Based upon exhaustive research of primary source documents, Overland West will be the definitive work on the western trails.

Showing results 1-2 of 2

  • Books
  • Site Content
Filter Results OPEN +
Searching...
With Golden Visions Bright Before Them

With Golden Visions Bright Before Them

Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852

by Will Bagley

So Rugged and Mountainous

So Rugged and Mountainous

Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848

by Will Bagley

Join Our Mailing List

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
2800 VENTURE DRIVE
NORMAN OK 73069

OUPRESS.COM EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER
Powered by Supadu
Connect With Us
University of Oklahoma Press
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.