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Author LaSalle, Michael E., 1945-

Title Emigrants on the Overland Trail : the wagon trains of 1848 / Michael E. LaSalle
Published Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 516 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Just five months to get there -- St. Joseph: a rising star -- Load the wagons -- The talk before the walk -- A vast green sea -- Indian troubles -- Independence: a star in decline -- Through the tallgrass prairie -- Black beasts, black faces -- Come, come ye saints -- The Babylon of the West -- The sweetness of the sweetwater -- Les mauvaises terres -- The great trail forked -- Snaking through vulcan's workshop -- Glory, hallelujah, I shall die a rich man yet! -- The heavenly scent of Oregon pine -- Time to pay the gatekeeper -- The end of the journey -- Epilogue
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-492) and index
Subject Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries
Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Sources
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Frontier and pioneer life
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Pioneers
Travel
SUBJECT Overland Trails -- Description and travel
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146142
Overland Trails -- History -- Sources
Subject United States -- Overland Trails
West United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Diaries
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011037737
ISBN 9781612480213
1612480217