Overland: The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870

Description

Author/Photographer: MacGregor, Greg

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Signed and dated by the author on half-title page.  Slight smudging on bottom text block.  Dust Jacket:  Good.  Very light edge and corner wear.  In mylar.

Notes: Black and white photographs following the California Trail, from Independence, Missouri through Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming (where the trail divided, one branch becoming the Oregon Trail), Utah, Nevada, ending at Sacramento/Sutter’s Fort in California.   Photos accompanied by entries from emigrants’ diaries and nineteenth-century guidebooks.  Rough country, hard travelin’.   There are NO signed copies available.  Horizontal format.