The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California
A notorious bit of historical esoterica, this 1845 handbook for travelers heading westward from the civilized United States for the freedom of the wild, unsettled frontier is remembered today mainly for its small role in one of the most horrific stories of the American West: it suggested the untried shortcut, now known as the Hastings Cutoff, through Utah that led the Donner Party to its dreadful end. Absent the book's footnote position in the history of the West, this would still be a remarkable document of mid-19th-century America and the machinations and politicking that went into the American expansion across the co…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60206-729-5
- EAN: 9781602067295
- Produktnummer: 3253074
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 156 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.8 cm 206 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 206
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