The California Trail: An Epic with Many Heroes
by George R. Stewart
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0803291434
- ISBN 13
- 9780803291430
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Lincoln, NE: Bision Books / University of Nebraska Press, 1983 Bision Books / University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 1983. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 7th Printing by Line Number. Facsimile copy of the 1962 original by McGraw Hill. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant edge and tip bumping. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased; text is secure in binding. 339 pp 8vo. In 1841 and 1842 the first groups tried to and found a trail, or cleared one to find a way to California. By 1844, a great migration was in progress a people found was to be prepared for a trip over the California trail. This book describes the trail's year-by-year changes as weather conditions, new exploration, and better preparation by the settlers to complete the journey. This book tells how to travel it, what it felt like, and what was feared and hoped for. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016286
- Title
- The California Trail: An Epic with Many Heroes
- Author
- George R. Stewart
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0803291434
- ISBN 13
- 9780803291430
- Publisher
- Bision Books / University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln, NE
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- The California Trail, westward migration, Donner Party, westward expansion, Indian Raids, gold mining, silver mining, Overland Journeys, railroads, wagon trains, Indian Wars,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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