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Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Meek, Stephen Hall, --- Oregon --- Meek's Cutoff (Or.)

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The story of the Donner Party remains one of the most tragic and compelling in pioneer history. Johnson gathers many rare early narratives detailing the participants' trying experiences into one of the most accurate accounts to date of this disastrous event.

Donner Party. --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Donner Party --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- United States Local History --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Voyages and travels

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"Troubadour on the Road to Gold is a true, western adventure story with lots of action and rich detail. William Lorton's spritely, detailed, and insightful journal is a delight, yet moving at the same time. He gives insight rarely found in a young man into daily trail life from the Mississippi River to southern California, by way of Salt Lake City, in the early gold rush of 1849. Additional information is added in his letters from the trail to The New York Sun newspaper. Only a couple other diarists approach Lorton's deep level of detail about the Southern Route from SLC to LA. He is an active observer who exposes the damage done from stampedes, notes variations among the Indians, feels the pleasure of a river swim in the hot sun, appreciates a beautiful sunset or a rampaging hail storm, and he provides entertaining sketches of locations that interested him. He graphically describes his disastrous "walkabout" into uncharted Nevada desert that only four dozen other men experienced before retreating to the Old Spanish Trail. He reveals his scientific curiosity in vivid descriptions of a sidewinder rattle snake, mysteriously moving rocks on a desert playa, or microscopic fairy shrimp in an ephemeral lake. Lorton is a likable fellow with a droll sense of humor who entertains the camp with his rich singing voice and ability to play the violin. At the same time he can cook, clean, or chase oxen while being stoic about getting a foot damaged when trampled in a stampede, having all his bacon stolen by the Indians, or having to shoot his faithful horse. He represents the best traits a man can possess-resilience in adversity, a positive attitude, and an active participant in the society he finds himself in, be it a Mormon home or a wagon mess on the trail"--Provided by publisher.

Gold mines and mining --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- History --- Lorton, William B., --- California. --- California --- Gold discoveries.

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A critical era in California's history and development-the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada-is thoroughly and colorfully documented in Thomas Howard's fascinating book. During California's first two decades of statehood (1850-1870), the state was separated from the east coast by a sea journey of at least six weeks. Although Californians expected to be connected with the other states by railroad soon after the 1849 Gold Rush, almost twenty years elapsed before this occurred. Meanwhile, various overland road ventures were launched by "emigrants," former gold miners, state government officials, the War Department, the Interior Department, local politicians, town businessmen, stagecoach operators, and other entrepreneurs whose alliances with one another were constantly shifting. The broad landscape of international affairs is also a part of Howard's story.Constructing roads and accumulating geographic information in the Sierra Nevada reflected Washington's interest in securing the vast western territories formerly held by others. In a remarkably short time the Sierra was transformed by vigorous exploration, road-promotion, and road-building. Ox-drawn wagons gave way to stagecoaches able to provide service as fine as any in the country. Howard effectively uses diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and official reports to recreate the human struggle and excitement involved in building the first trans-Sierra roads. Some of those roads have become modern highways used by thousands every day, while others are now only dim traces in the lonely backcountry.

Roads --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Voyages and travels --- Highways --- Roadways --- Thoroughfares --- Transportation --- Highway engineering --- Pavements --- History --- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) --- Sierra Nevada Mountains (Calif. and Nev.) --- Sierra Nevada Range (Calif. and Nev.) --- Sierras (Calif. and Nev.) --- Description and travel.

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A history of women's roles in the migration to and settling of the American West.

Women pioneers --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- Frontier women --- Pioneer women --- Pioneers --- History --- Juvenile literature --- West (U.S.) --- History.