Wake of the Prairie Schooner - Hardcover

Paden, I. D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0935284400 ISBN 13: 9780935284409

Publisher: Patrice Pr, 1985

Synopsis

This is an authentic saga of the emigrant trails across America's plains to the Pacific Coast, from its beginning in 1812, through the thick of the greatest migration in all history, to its deterioration after completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. Here those trails and sites are described as experienced by a modern family following again the old wheel tracks left in past areas. There is not a fictitious person or imiginary incident in the book. Well known characters of history are described and well known incidents related just as emigrants set them down. More than 350 diaries, letters and reminiscences have been drawn upon and not a description has been lightly written. The dignified rivalry between England and the United States for the Oregon country, the much decried extermination of the buffalo, the keeping and breaking of the Indian treaties, the unbiased and on the spot comments of the "Gentile" emigrants on the brusque, efficient Morman people. All of these and many other relevant subjects have been sifted from contemporary documents and presented in a simple and colloquial style. When you have read "The Wake Of The Prairie Schooner", you will know better than from any other book what the pioneer trails were like.

About this edition

• Publisher: Patrice Pr
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0935284400
• ISBN 13: 9780935284409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 514