Our Faces Are Westward: The 1852 Oregon Trail Journey of Edward Jay Allen

by Dennis M. Larsen

In 1852, in search of better health, a sickly Edward Jay Allen traveled by steamboat from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he joined a wagon train of Iowa farmers en route to Oregon. The group successfully navigated the trail through Nebraska, took the Child's Cutoff in Wyoming, and, after South Pass, followed the Sublette Cutoff. At Three Island Crossing in Idaho, Allen had become exhausted by the heat, dust, and insufficient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893061094
• ISBN13: 9781893061095
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oregon-California Trails Association
• Length: 262 Pages