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The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West,

The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 Softcover - 1982

by UNRUH Jr., John D

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Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Very Good+. 1982. Softcover. 0252009681 . A paperback edition of John D. Unruh, Jr.'s highly-regarded history of the movement of a quarter million emigrants across the Great Plains to settle in the American West in the 19th century. With numerous maps, tables and black & white photos, drawings and reproductions of art works; indexed. Includes a foreword by Doyce Nunis. The author died at age 38 in 1976 following surgery for a brain tumor. --- In wraps with sepia image of Albert Bierstadt's "The Oregon Trail" to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy but with a little sunning & a speck of brown soiling to covers and prior owner's signature & info. to title page.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xvi, 364, (2) pages .
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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.

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