The story of travel and exploration across the American West is treated in this ongoing series of monographs. From the well-known to the obscure, the routes of explorers, pioneers, and travelers are examined in detail. Though predominantly textual, each volume includes maps and other supplemental materials. Included are such classics as Hebard and Brininstool’s Bozeman Trail, Conkling’s Butterfield Overland Mail, and important works on the great western migration.
A scholarly work on children's narratives of life on the overland trails, Children's Voices from the Trail is an invaluable source book for researchers and historians of the overland...
Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1856–1869
Edited by Michael L. Tate
Contributions by Kerin Tate, Will Bagley and Richard Rieck
These documents, with an introduction and editorial notes written by historian Michael L. Tate to provide context and commentary, comprise the fourth and final installment in a documentary history of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails. They give a living voice to the history of the American experience at a time of westward expansion and profound, unprecedented change.
Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1840–1848
Edited by Michael L. Tate
Contributions by Will Bagley and Richard Rieck
Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers’ accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs—many previously unpublished—accompanied by biographical information and historical background.
Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1850–1855
Edited by Michael L. Tate
Contributions by Kerin Tate, Will Bagley and Richard Rieck
The firsthand accounts of those who made the trip between 1850 and 1855 that are collected in this third volume in a four-part series speak of wonders and adventures, but also of disaster and deprivation. Traversing the ever-changing landscape, these pioneers braved flooded rivers, endured cholera and hunger, and had encounters with Indians that were often friendly and sometimes troubled.
Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1849
Edited by Michael L. Tate
Contributions by Will Bagley and Richard Rieck
During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwright forever altered the future state’s fate. Building a sawmill for Johann August Sutter, James Wilson Marshall struck gold. The rest may be history, but much of the story of what happened in the following year is told not in history books but in the letters, diaries, journals, and other written recollections of those whom the California gold rush drew west. In this second installment in the projected four-part collection The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, the hardy souls who made the arduous trip tell their stories in their own words.
Prior to 1859, overland travelers leaving Salt Lake City for California had but two alternatives. They could go north into Idaho and follow the Humboldt River into northern California, or they could head south and enter southern California. Both routes were long and tortuous. In the summer of 1859, Captain James Simpson blazed a more direct trail. The Pony Express, the Overland Stage adopted the route as did emigrants in covered wagons, and this is the first book to collect their day-by-day accounts of traveling the Central Overland Trail. Based on ten years of research, West from Salt Lake includes excerpts from twenty-three emigrant diaries, many previously unpublished. Trail enthusiasts and students of westering migration history will welcome this detailed view of the previously neglected Central Overland Trail.
A cooper and farmer from Ontario, Canada, Washington Peck (1801–89) spent decades traveling across the western frontier before finally settling in Washington Territory. Peck’s chronicle of his itinerant life offers fresh insight into some of the less traveled emigrant routes across the nineteenth-century West.
In 1849, William R. Goulding and the Knickerbocker Exploring Company struck out for California on the southern route—a road less traveled. This rare first-person diary of the southern Gold Rush trails, introduced and annotated by Patricia A. Etter, highlights an important alternative route to the Pacific Coast.
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