Overview :In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters wer... Read More
Overview :Books, art, and movies most often portray the frontier army in continuous conflict with Native Americans. In truth, the army spent only a sm... Read More
Overview : Between 1841 and 1866, more than a half-million people followed trails to Oregon, California, and Utah in one of the largest mass migration... Read More
Overview : During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwr... Read More
Overview :Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass ... Read More
Overview :In the years after the discovery of gold in California, thousands of fortune seekers made their way west, joining the greatest mass migratio... Read More