A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest
beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the
American West.
Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a
vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain,
Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the
whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and,
finally, to settle there.
Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and
newspaper accounts, David Dary takes us inside the experience of
the continuing waves of people who traveled the Oregon Trail or
took its cutoffs to Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, and California.
He introduces us to the fur traders who set up the first "forts" as
centers to ply their trade; the missionaries bent on converting the
Indians to Christianity; the mountain men and voyageurs who settled
down at last in the fertile Willamette Valley; the farmers and
their families propelled west by economic bad times in the East;
and, of course, the gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, journalists,
artists, and entrepreneurs who all added their unique presence to
the land they traversed.
We meet well-known figures-John Jacob Astor, Marcus and Narcissa
Whitman, John Fremont, the Donners, and Red Cloud, among others-as
well as dozens of little-known men, women, and children who jotted
down what they were seeing and feeling in journals, letters, or
perhaps even on a rock or a gravestone.
Throughout, Dary keeps us informed of developments in the East and
their influence on events in the West, among them the building of
the transcontinental railroad and the efforts of the far western
settlements tobecome U.S. territories and eventually states.
Above all, "The Oregon Trail offers a panoramic look at the
romance, colorful stories, hardships, and joys of the pioneers who
made up this tremendous and historic migration.
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