Gold Rush Trail and the Road to Oregon

Name/Title

Gold Rush Trail and the Road to Oregon

Entry/Object ID

2009.3.24

Description

Gold Rush Trail and the Road to Oregon: The historic trails--as seen by the pioneers and retraced today, over 100 photographs. The author, a distinguished photographer, retraveled the California and Oregon Trails, making a historic record of how they looked in the early 1960's, telling the story using pioneer diaries and his own text. Page 47 & 48, mention St. Joseph as a frontier outfitting town. Page 65 mentions the St. Joe Road. There is a picture of a rock engraved Alcove Spring on page 64. Photos are black & white 224/Hardbound/Photographs

Collection

Don and Maudie Reynolds Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Photographs of Oregon-California Trail in 1960's, Western Migration, Gold Rush, California Trail, Trails, Oregon Trail, Oregon-California Trail, St. Joe Road

Book Details

Author

Webb, Todd

Place Published

City

Garden City

State/Province

New York

Date Published

1963

Call No.

Western WE

LCCN

63-18211

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Apr 11, 2009