The Oregon trail : the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean / compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration ; sponsored by Oregon Trail Memorial Association, inc.

Main entry:

Federal Writers' Project, author.

Title & Author:

Publication:

New York : Hastings House, [1939]
©1939

Description:

xii, 244 pages : illustrations, plates, folded map ; 21 cm.

Series:

American guide series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-230).
Foreword -- Notes on the book -- Why a trail to Oregon -- Missouri-Iowa -- Nebraska -- Wyoming -- Idaho -- Oregon -- Alternate route, Nebraska-Wyoming -- Side routes -- Appendices -- Index.

Summary:

This work "is primarily a guidebook, but it is also history, told ... in geographical rather than chronological or topical sequence. The explorers Lewis and Clark, the fur trader Manuel Lisa, the refugee Mormons, and the construction gang of the Union Pacific Railroad are tied together by campgrounds near the same place on the bank of the muddy Missouri ... When possible the story has been told through extracts from the diaries and other writings of the actors and their contemporaries"--P. xi.

ISBN:

0403012902
9780403012909

Subject:

Automobile travel Guidebooks.
Automobile travel West (U.S.) Guidebooks.
Voyages en automobile Guides.
Automobile travel
Oregon Trail.
Oregon National Historic Trail.
West (U.S.) Guidebooks.
United States Oregon National Historic Trail
West United States
United States, Oregon History To 1859.

Form/genre:

Guidebook
travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
Books.
Dust jackets 20th century.
Guidebooks 20th century.
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Federal Writers' Project (Or.)
American guide series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318026
Call No.: 318026
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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