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The journey west, from the Missouri River to the Pacific coast, was made by some quarter of a million Americans during the 1840s and 1850s, and stands as one of the great human adventure stories of all time. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, California, in 1848, the immigration took on an urgency and a scope that would never be matched again, though the numbers of migrants was eventually equaled over time by the slower pace of those who went to Oregon and followed later to California to put down more permanent roots.
This work draws heavily from the diaries of 17 men and women who made the four month, 2,000 mile trek to California during 1849 and 1850. The text is divided into three main parts. Part One covers travel from the Missouri River to Fort Laramie, Part Two covers Fort Laramie to Fort Hall and Salt Lake City, and Part Three covers the trek from there to the Sierra Nevadas.
Each part has chapters that detail specific parts of the trail, sites, or locations where the migrants found something important to write about. The diarists' accounts tell of the adventures, hardships, desires, concerns, deprivations, sicknesses, deaths along the way, and of crossing the last great obstacle--the "Elephant," as many of them called it--the high ridge of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
PART I: FROM THE BANKS OF THE MISSOURI TO FORT LARAMIE
Getting Ready to Go
Leaving from Independence
Leaving from Weston/Fort Leavenworth
Leaving from St. Joseph
Along the Blue River Road to the Platte
Other Roads to the Platte
Falling in Along the Platte
Leaving from Kanesville/Council Bluffs
Fort Kearney
Fort Kearney to the Platte Fork
The Fork of the Platte
Crossing the South Fork of the Platte to Ash Hollow
Ash Hollow
Sioux Country Along the North Platte
Landmarks of the Western Plains
Scotts Bluff
On to Fort Laramie
Around Fort Laramie
PART II: FROM FORT LARAMIE TO FORT HALL AND SALT LAKE CITY
Into the Black Hills
Around Deer Creek
Ferry on the Upper Platte
North Platte Ferry to the Sweetwater
The Sweetwater, Independence Rock and the Devil's Gate
Along the Sweetwater
Ice Spring
South Pass and Pacific Springs
Pacific Springs to the Road Fork on Big Sandy
Sublette/Greenwood Cut-off
Big Sandy to Fort Bridger
At the Green River
Toward the Bear River Road
Around Thomas's Fork
Soda Springs and Steamboat Springs
Junction with Hudspeth Cut-off
On to Fort Hall
Fort Hall
Fort Bridger to Salt Lake City
PART III: FROM FORT HALL AND SALT LAKE TO THE SIERRA NEVADA
Salt Lake to the City of Rocks
Fort Hall to the City of Rocks
Raft River Road
Merger of Fort Hall and Salt Lake Roads at the City of Rocks
Goose Creek to the Upper Humboldt River
Starting the Humboldt Run
Carlin Canyon
Dust, Deprivation, Depredation
Junction with the Lassen/Myers Cut-off
The Lassen Route from the Humboldt to Goose Lake
On to the Sink
At the Big Meadow
The Humboldt Sink
The Truckee Route to the Crest of the Sierras
The Carson Route Across the Desert
Along the Carson River
The Elephant—Up the Eastern Wall of the Sierras
Promised Land—Into the Sacramento Valley
Epilogue
Notes
Index
