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Oregon and California in 1848

Jessy Quinn Thornton

Oregon and California in 1848

by Jessy Quinn Thornton

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Published by Harper in New York .
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    Subjects:
  • Oregon -- Description and travel.,
  • California -- Description and travel.,
  • California -- Gold discoveries.

  • Edition Notes

    Statementby J. Quinn Thornton ... ; with an appendix, including recent and authentic information on the subject of the gold mines of California, and other valuable matter of interest to the emigrant, etc ; with illustrations and a map ...
    SeriesWestern Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 533, no. 5377.
    Classifications
    LC ClassificationsF880 .T51
    The Physical Object
    FormatMicroform
    Pagination2 v.
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL15438020M
    LC Control Number87761830

    So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, is the first of four volumes of Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails Series. Richard Rieck is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Western Illinois University. The California Trail. The California Trail is most notably associated with the goldrush of , however, many pioneers traveled to California before the rush. The Donner-Reed Party was one such group who traveled from Illinois Ap with 87 travelers en route to group, having started west late in the year, were enticed by Lansford Hastings to take an alternate and.

    The Great Medicine Road, Part 1, Volume 24 | Between and , more than , people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers' accounts of their journeys in the s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters. Map of Oregon and upper California from the surveys of John Charles Frémont and other authorities Hand colored. LC copy sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Annotated on verso in black ink: California & Oregon Millard Fillmore. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows area of.

    The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in February , was a triumph for American expansionism under which Mexico ceded nearly half its land to the United States. The Mexican Cession, as the conquest of land west of the Rio Grande was called, included the current states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and portions of.   Beginning in , roug emigrants made the 2,mile trek from Independence, Missouri, to the Oregon Territory. Heavily traveled until , the Oregon Trail was the most used of all.


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