Seeing the Elephant: Voices from the Oregon Trail

"The target audience for this book is middle and high school students. However, its information will appeals to a far broader audience. . . . .A useful introduction to trail travel and associated incidents."—Journal of the West"[A] little gem of a book."—Overland JournalTheirs has been called America's single largest voluntary, historical migration. From the late 1830's to the mid-1870's—a span of just over forty years—nearly half a million ordinary folk left farms and families, friends, an...