West Toward the Setting Sun Eric G. Dalke Introduction The
migration up the Oregon Trail which started in Independence,
Missouri and followed through to Oregon City, Oregon was considered
one of the greatest feats of all times. From 1843 to 1863, before
the railroads came, approximately 300,000 men, women and children
with all their belongings strapped to the inside or the outside of
their heavily built Conestoga wagon or the lighter Yankee Schooner
headed West toward the promised land. However about 30,000 or 10
percent of the emigrants didn't make it and lost their lives along
the journey. With their animals following behind, riding within, or
pulling the vessel, the Pioneers traveled alongside their mules or
Oxen for 2000 miles of hard, rugged untamed wilderness to reach a
destination to be described by many as the closest thing to the
biblical Eden that North America had to offer, or better known, as
the Oregon Country. This story focuses on the Carpenter family, the
boy's uncle Slim Bodine, and to a lesser extent many other pioneers
who wanted to leave their past behind and start a new life free of
landlords, droughts, taxes, inclement weather, over-crowding, bad
crops and to some- freedom from the law. The intense need to travel
to new lands and conquer them sometimes can't be explained, other
than to say that mankind has always been searching over the horizon
for something new and different and the trek to Oregon was
definitely that.
General
| Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2013 |
| First published: |
December 2013 |
| Authors: |
Eric G Dalke
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| Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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| Pages: |
340 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4927-3753-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Westerns
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| LSN: |
1-4927-3753-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781492737537 |
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