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Overland : the California emigrant trail of 1841-1870
- Title
- Overland : the California emigrant trail of 1841-1870 / Greg MacGregor ; introduction by Walter Truett Anderson.
- Author
- MacGregor, Greg.
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F593 .M254 1996q Oversize | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 168 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 x 32 cm
- Summary
- It has been over 150 years since pioneers first went west from Missouri, across Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Nevada into California, across the vast plains, formidable mountains, and desert. Although the route known as the California Emigrant Trail is mostly unmarked today, much evidence remains. Photographer Greg MacGregor has researched the trail and traveled it for thousands of miles. He has photographed the eroded ruts, emigrant graves, pieces of burned and abandoned wagons. He has also photographed what has sprung up over the trail: KOA campgrounds, golf courses, housing developments. The images are poignant, sometimes amusing, occasionally downright terrifying, and always fascinating in what they reveal about pioneer overland travel. Showing these photographs with excerpts from emigrants' diaries and advice from nineteenth-century guidebooks, Greg MacGregor presents us with a vivid and intimate picture of what the journey was like for those with no idea of what lay ahead. At the same time he captures the ironies in the landscape of the late-twentieth-century West.
- Subject
- MacGregor, Greg
- Geschichte 1841-1870
- Overland journeys to the Pacific > Pictorial works
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Fotografie
- Bildband
- West (U.S.) > Pictorial works
- Overland Trails > Pictorial works
- California National Historic Trail > Pictorial works
- United States > California National Historic Trail
- United States > Overland Trails
- West United States
- California Trail
- California Trail (Etats-Unis)
- États-Unis (ouest) > Descriptions et voyages
- Californie (États-Unis) > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Photographing the Overland Trail -- The Overland Trail : history and overview -- The Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska crossing -- The Wyoming crossing -- The Nevada crossing -- California.
- ISBN
- 0826317030
- 9780826317032
- 0826317049
- 9780826317049
- LCCN
- 95032470
- OCLC
- ocm32854464
- 32854464
- SCSB-2089099
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library