overland journeys to the pacific (u.s.)

A study of the overland emigration during the pioneer era of America's westward expansion.

An account of the California Gold Rush that started in 1848 with the discovery of gold in Sutter's mill and of the people who took part in it.

Charts the journey of those who followed the Oregon Trail in the first half of the nineteenth century, describes the obstacles and dangers they encountered, and discusses the Trail's eventual decline with the introduction of the cross-country railroad.