Westward Vision
The Story of the Oregon Trail
In one very real sense, David Lavender writes, the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus. This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender illustrates the westward vision that impelled the early explorers of the American interior looking for a northwest passage and send fur trappers into the region charted by Lewis and Clark. For the emigrants following the trappers' routes, that vision gradually grew into a sense of a manifest American destiny. Lavender describes the efforts of emigration societies, of missionaries like Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, and of early pion…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8032-7915-5
- EAN: 9780803279155
- Produktnummer: 9562391
- Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1985
- Seitenangabe: 425 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B14.4 cm x D2.6 cm 472 g
- Abbildungen: Illus., map
- Gewicht: 472
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David Lavender's classic histories of the Old West include Bent's Fort, California: Land of New Beginnings, and One Man's West, all available as Bison Books.
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