Overland in 1846, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail

by Dale L. Morgan

Overview

Volume II, based on contemporary records, offers a broader but no less vivid view of what it was like to go west in 1846 and pictures what was found in California and Oregon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803282018
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	12/01/1993
Series:	Overland in 1846 Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Each volume is introduced by the distinguished historian Dale L. Morgan, whose shaping and elucidation of the material have produced a factual account as dramatic as any novel or movie. Included among other Morgan titles reprinted as Bison Books is Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	458
	Ho! For California and Oregon	472
	The Plains	539
	New and Nearer Routes	604
	The New Land: Oregon and California	656
Appendix	John M. Shively's Guide to Oregon and California, 1846	734
	Notes	743
	Index	800
	Errata	826
	Map of the California-Oregon Trail
	The Jefferson map

Editorial Reviews

"Dale Morgan has produced a veritable bible of overland travel for that ‘year of decision,’ 1846."—Harvey L. Carter, Journal of American History

— Harvey L. Carter

Journal of American History

"Dale Morgan has produced a veritable bible of overland travel for that ‘year of decision,’ 1846."—Harvey L. Carter, Journal of American History

Journal of American History - Harvey L. Carter