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The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 Soft cover - 1982
by John D. Unruh Jr
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- Title The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
- Author John D. Unruh Jr
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition Paperback Editio
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 364
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL
- Date 1982
- Bookseller's Inventory # 004223
- ISBN 9780252009686 / 0252009681
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.) - History - To 1848, Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 82001994
- Dewey Decimal Code 978.02
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BEFORE SIXTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH WILLIAMS left his Indiana home in 1841 to make the long trek overland to the Oregon country, his friends sought to dissuade him by emphasizing the many dangers and difficulties surely waiting him from Indians and wild beasts in the intervening regions.