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English
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A Continuous Line of Stock and Wagons : A Reappraisal of 1857 Overland Travel
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Overland Journal
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2011
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29
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no.1
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23-38
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"I surveyed previous scholarship on the scope and nature of overland emigration in 1857. Regarding the 1857 overland emigration, I found substantial information existed about the Baker and Fancher trains that took the route south from Salt Lake City and were massacred by Mormons and Paiutes at Mountain Meadows. In addition, some information was available that related to the Turner, Dukes, and Collins trains that also traveled the same route several days behind the Baker and Fancher companies. Except for the documentation of those trains, little else about the 1857 emigration season had been investigated. Not only had little been written about 1857 overland travel, some published information, especially regarding the number of emigrants, lacked verifiable documentation. In compiling and analyzing information about the 1857 emigration, a story emerges that is quite different than what is found in previously published works. Although the possibilities for comparison are limitless, certain broad topics illustrate the need to reexamine any previous understanding of the 1857 overland travel season." [p.24]