Seeing the Elephant: Voices from the Oregon Trail

by Joyce Badgley Hunsaker

Book Overview

"The target audience for this book is middle and high school students. However, its information will appeals to a far broader audience. . . . .A useful introduction to trail travel and associated incidents."--Journal of the West " A] little gem of a book."--Overland Journal Theirs has been called America's single largest voluntary, historical migration. From the late 1830's to the mid-1870's--a span of just over forty years--nearly half a million...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896725049
• ISBN13: 9780896725041
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.2"