Westward Vision The Story of the Oregon Trail

Name: Westward Vision The Story of the Oregon Trail
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ISBN: 9780803279155

ISBN-10: 0803279159

ISBN-13: 9780803279155

Edition: Reprint

Authors: David Lavender

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“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. nbsp; Lavender describes the efforts of emigration societies, of missionaries like Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, and of early pioneer settlers like Hall Jackson…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 3/1/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 425
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.056