The plains across
the overland emigrants and the trans-Mississippi West 1840-60
The plains across
the overland emigrants and the trans-Mississippi West 1840-60
Book - 1979
A study of the overland emigration during the pioneer era of America's westward expansion.
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| 37413312482146 | Restricted | Northwest Room | NW 978.02 UNRUH |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
c1979.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Unruh, John David, |d 1937-1976. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The plains across : |b the overland emigrants and the trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 / |c John D. Unruh, Jr. |
| 260 | |a Urbana : |b University of Illinois Press, |c c1979. | ||
| 300 | |a xviii, 565 p. : |b ill. ; |c 26 cm. | ||
| 520 | |a A study of the overland emigration during the pioneer era of America's westward expansion. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The historians and the Overlanders -- Public opinion, 1840-48 : "Palpable homicide" or "Merry as a marriage bell"? -- Public opinion, 1849-60 : humbugging and helping -- Motivations and beginnings : "Life is at a fair" -- Emigrant interaction : "Our journey has not been as solitary as we feared" -- Emigrant-Indian interaction : from "mutual aid" to "massacres" -- The federal government : "Good fellow Uncle Sam is" -- Private entrepreneurs, 1840-49 : "While others are chasing wealth they are catching it, no dream" -- Private entrepreneurs, 1950-60 : "Too many cooks spoil the broth" -- The Mormon "halfway house" : "It costs nothing to get in, but a great deal to get out" -- West Coast assistance : "Are you men from California, or do you come from heaven?" -- The Overlanders in historical perspective : "To endure heat like a salamander ... and labor like a jackass". | |
| 504 | |a Bibliography: p. 521-554. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Overland journeys to the Pacific. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Frontier and pioneer life |z West (U.S.) | |
| 651 | 0 | |a West (U.S.) |x History |y 1848-1860. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a West (U.S.) |x History |y To 1848. | |
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