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With Golden Visions Bright Before Them
Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852
During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second installment of Will Bagley’s sweeping Overland West series—captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America’s first great rush for riches and its enduring consequences.
Beyond the American Pale
The Irish in the West, 1845–1910
With vigor and panache, Emmons describes how the West was not so much won as continually contested and reshaped. He probes the self-fulfilling mythology of the American West, along with the far different mythology of the Irish pioneers. The product of three decades of research and thought, Beyond the American Pale is a masterful yet accessible recasting of American history, the culminating work of a singular thinker willing to take a wholly new perspective on the past.
So Rugged and Mountainous
Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848
The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this magisterial volume, Will Bagley tells why and how this massive emigration began.
South Pass
Gateway to a Continent
Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through the high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. That place, South Pass, has received much attention in lore and memory but attracted no serious book-length study—until now. In this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to the nation’s history and to the development of the American West.
With Golden Visions Bright Before Them
Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852
Beyond the American Pale
The Irish in the West, 1845–1910
So Rugged and Mountainous
Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848
South Pass
Gateway to a Continent
Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through the high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. That place, South Pass, has received much attention in lore and memory but attracted no serious book-length study—until now. In this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to the nation’s history and to the development of the American West.