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Westward Vision : the Story of the Oregon Trail.

By David Lavender

Book information

Publisher
UNP - Nebraska Paperback
Year
1963
ISBN
0803279159, 978-0803279155
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3458197 bytes)
Pages
676\438
Time added
2017-04-26 19:48:49
Overland journeys to the Pacific;Oregon National HWest

Description

"In one very real sense," David Lavender writes, "the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus." This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender illustrates the "westward vision" that impelled the early explorers of the American interior looking for a northwest passage and send fur trappers into the region charted by Lewis and Clark. For the emigrants following the trappers' routes, that vision gradually grew into a sense of a manifest American destiny. Lavender describes the efforts of emigra.  Read more...

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