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Wagons West : The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails
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New York
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Grove Press
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"In q book The Washington Post has called 'fascinating,' Frank McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to migrate throughout the American West. Wagons West is a stirring history of the years from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the onset of the gold rush. In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by intrepid settlers to Oregon and California. Although they used mountain men as guides, they went almost literally into the unknown, braving dangers from hunger, thirst, disease, and drowning.
"Using original diaries and memoirs, McLynn 'provides intimate, perceptive insights into that time' (The Baltimore Sun) and underscores the heroism and dangerous folly on the overland trails. The climax arrives in McLynn's expertly re-creation of the Donner party fiasco, and he ends with the equally horrendous disasters of the Mormon treks. Full of tragedy, and triumph, it brilliantly chronicles one of the principal chapters in the creation of the United States." [Publisher's summary]
Chapter ten specifically discusses the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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111 Days to Zion
A Biography of Parley P. Pratt, the Archer of Paradise
A Journey to Great Salt Lake City, with a Sketch of the History, Religion, and Customs of the Mormons, and an Introduction on The Religious Movement in the United States
A Mormon Chronicle : The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876
An American Prophet's Record : The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
An Overland Journey From New York To San Francisco : In the summer of 1860
A Trip across the Plains in the Year 1849, with Notes of a Voyage to California by Way of Panama
Autobiography of Pioneer John Brown 1820-1896
A Woman's Experiences with the Pioneer Band
Biography of Lorenzo Dow Young
Brigham Young : American Moses
Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier
Brigham Young, Colonizer
Brigham Young's Outer Cordon--A Reappraisal
By Ox Team from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, 1850
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Charles C. Rich : Mormon General and Western Frontiersman
Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth : Historical Character Study
Council Bluffs and the Westward Movement
Covered Wagon Women : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
Day by Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847 : A Chronological Record of the Trek across the Plains
Diary of Lorenzo Dow Young
Discovering Mormon Trails : New York to California, 1831-1868
Early Days on the Grand River and the Mormon War
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Erastus Snow : The Life of a Missionary and Pioneer for the Early Mormon Church
Establishing Zion : The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-69
Exodus to Greatness : The Story of the Mormon Migration
Finalizing Plans for the Trek West : Deliberations at Winter Quarters, 1846-1847
Fort Bridger and the Mormons
Fort Bridger : Island in the Wilderness
Fort Bridger, Wyoming, A Brief History
Frontier Women : The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880
Gold Rush
Gold Seekers on the Hastings Cutoff
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Heber C. Kimball : Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
History and Journals of the Life and Travels of Jesse W. Crosby
History of California 1552-[1890]
History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period II : From the Manuscript History of Brigham Young and Other Original Documents
History of Utah
History of Utah, 1847-1869
Independence, Missouri, A Century Old
Indian Relations on the Mormon Frontier
Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
Journal of Captain Albert Tracy, 1858-1860
Journals of John D. Lee 1846-47 and 1859
Journey to Zion : From the Journal of Erastus Snow
Lansford Warren Hastings : Scoundrel or Visionary?
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Letters by Forty-Niners : Written from Great Salt Lake City in 1849
Letters of a Proselyte : The Hascall-Pomeroy Correspondence
Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847
Miles Goodyear and the Founding of Ogden
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormon Midwives
Mormons and Gentiles : A History of Salt Lake City
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-1852 : "And Should We Die"
Mormons in Texas : The Ill-Fated Lyman Wight Colony, 1844-1858
Mormon Troubles in Missouri
Murder of an American Prophet : Events and Prejudices Surrounding the Killing of Joseph and Hyrum Smith; Carthage, Illinois, June 27, 1844. Materials for Analysis
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
Orrin Porter Rockwell : Man of God, Son of Thunder
Overland : The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870
Overland to the Gold Fields of California in 1852 : The Journal of John Hawkins Clark
Patty Bartlett Sessions : More Than a Midwife
Persons for All Seasons : Women in Mormon History
Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's Diary : Also, Thrilling Experiences of Pre-frontier Life Among Indians, Their Traits, Civil and Savage, and Part of Autobiography, Inter-related to his Father's
Platte River Road Narratives
Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer
Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 : And to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44
Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines, or a Diary Kept Upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake
Sidney Rigdon : A Portrait of Religious Excess
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Bannock of Idaho
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Council Bluffs Road : Northern Branch of the Great Platte River Road
The Economic Role of Pioneer Mormon Women
The Essential Brigham Young
The Founding of an Empire : The Exploration and Colonization of Utah, 1776-1856
The Gathering of Zion : The Story of the Mormon Trail
The Great Platte River Road : The Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie
The Iowa Trek of 1846 : The Brigham Young Route from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters
The Latter-day Saints' Emigrants' Guide
The Midwest Pioneer : His Ills, Cures, & Doctors
The Mormon Battalion : U.S. Army of the West 1846-1848
The Mormon Corridor
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Ferry on the North Platte : The Journal of William A. Empey
The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West
The Mormons : A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
The Mormon Trail Network in Iowa 1838-1863 : A New Look
The Mormon Trail of 1846
The Mormon Trails in Iowa
The Mormon Way Stations : Garden Grove and Mt. Pisgah
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints : The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
The Plains Across : The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
The Private Papers and Diary of Thomas Leiper Kane. A Friend of the Mormons
The Road to 'Fortune' : The Salt Lake Cutoff
The Salt Desert Trail
The State of Deseret
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Sutler at Fort Bridger
The Trail West : A Bibliography - Index to Western American Trails, 1841-1869
The West of William H. Ashley: The International Struggle for the Fur Trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia, with Explorations beyond the Continental Divide, Recorded in the Diaries and Letters of William H. Ashley and His Contemporaries, 1822-1838
The Women of Mormondom
The Year of Decision, 1846
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Trailing the Pioneers : A Guide to Utah's Emigrant Trails, 1829-1869
Trials of Discipleship : The Story of William Clayton, a Mormon
Utah's Harsh Lands, Hearth of Greatness
Utah's History
Waiting for World's End : Diaries of Wilford Woodruff
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
West from Fort Bridger : The Pioneering of the Immigrant Trails across Utah 1846-1850
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
William Clayton's Journal : A Daily Record of the Journal of the Original Company of 'Mormon' Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
Winter Quarters
Winter Quarters : The 1846-48 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards
Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915
Women's Work on the Mormon Frontier