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100 1 $aBagley, Will,$d1950-
245 10 $aOverland West :$bthe story of the Oregon and California trails /$cWill Bagley.
260 $aNorman :$bUniversity of Oklahoma Press,$cc2010-
300 $av. :$bill., maps ;$c27 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aV. 1: "So rugged and mountainous" : blazing the Oregon and California trails, 1812-1848 -- V. 2: With golden visions before them : trails to the mining West, 1849-1852
505 0 $aVOLUME 1 CONTENTS: -- We had to travel through Indian Country -- Difficulties which never occurred to their minds: fur traders, adventurers, and visionaries -- The stern facts of geography: Americans head west, 1840 and 1841 -- Jumping off: preparations, provisions, and partings -- You damn Yankees will do anything you like: opening roads to the Pacific, 1842 and 1843 -- The restless ones: the swelling tides of 1844 and 1845 -- All very much the same: life on the early trails -- Grasping and unscrupulous: peace in Oregon, War in California, 1846 -- A wild looking set: society on the trails -- Tragedy in Oregon, Gold in California, and a city at the Great Salt Lake, 1847 and 1848.
505 0 $aVOLUME 2 CONTENTS: -- Men of enterprise and adventure: the rush begins -- Avarice seems to rule: the forty-niners set out -- Which road to take? South Pass to city of rocks -- First flight of forty-niners: the race to the goldfields -- Shortcuts to death: cutoffs, detours, and delusions in 1849 -- A new and shorter route: Lassen's Horn -- Passing swarms: the trails in 1850 -- The very windows of heaven: the Bust of 1851 -- The great tide of emigrants: the trails in 1852 -- This insatiate thirst for gold: the birth of the mining west.
520 $aThe 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 "Overland West: the story of the Oregon and California Trails," the four volumes of the set tell the sweeping saga of how this 'road across the Plains' transformed the American West and became an enduring part of its legacy. -- from Book Jacket
520 $aThe first volume, subtitled "So rugged and mountainous: Blazing the trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848," tells how this massive immigration began. Drawing on extensive research, the author has woven a wealth of primary sources- personal letters and journals, government documents, newspaper reports, and folk accounts- into a compelling narrative that reinterprets the first years of overland migration. It relates the story of remarkable men, women, and children who first traveled 'the plains across' from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean between 1812 and 1848, and who helped make the United States a continental nation. He folds into the narrative more than five hundred overland sources unknown to earlier scholars. And he particularly spotlights the crucial years between 1840 and 1848, when American adventurers, explorers, and farmers blazed wagon roads to the Pacific across both the Cascade Range and the Sierra Nevada, making the vainglorious concept of Manifest Destiny into flesh-and-blood reality. -- from Book Jacket
520 $aThe second volume, subtitled 'With golden visions before them : trails to the mining West, 1849-1852' captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America's first great rush for riches and its enduring consequences as a quarter of a million travelers followed the 'road across the plains' in the mid-nineteenth century to the gold rush in California. With narrative scope and detail, the book tells this classic American saga through the voices of the people whose eyewitness testimonies vividly evoke the most dramatic era of westward migration. The gold rush epoch witnessed untold suffering and sacrifice, and the trails and their trials were enough to make many people turn back. Drawing from hundreds of previously unpublished diaries, letters, and recollections, the author describes the fortunes and misfortunes of gold-seeking forty-niners, Oregon-bound farmers, and Mormon pilgrims. Also discussed are America's native peoples, for whom the effect of the massive migration was no less than ruinous as thousand of intruders encroached on their ancient homelands. -- from Book Jacket
651 0 $aOregon National Historic Trail$xHistory.
651 0 $aCalifornia National Historic Trail$xHistory.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xDescription and travel.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zOregon National Historic Trail.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zCalifornia National Historic Trail.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$yTo 1848.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y1848-1860.
650 0 $aOverland journeys to the Pacific.
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