Name/Title
The Wake of the Prairie Schooner, 1943Entry/Object ID
2023.2.1Description
Acc. No. 23.2.1
Subject Category: Citizens of Alameda, authors of Alameda
Date or period: 1812-1869, 1943
Object: book
Description: hardcover book, 514 pages, with multi-color dust cover featuring an image of a covered wagon pulled by horses going up a hill, with the title 'The Wake of the Prairie Schooner' in white on a red background on the front.
Size: 6"x 8 9/16"
History of Object: Factual book, chronicling westward migration along covered wagon routes between 1812 and 1869. By Irene D. Paden, first edition with dust jacket (tears in jacket), 1943.
Acquired from: an anonymous donor