In the mid-1840s, the trails west from the Missouri frontier were clogged with pioneers searching for a new life in a remote land they thought was another Eden. In The Fields of Eden Richard S. Wheeler shows us a handful of these emigrants who arrived at the gates of Arcadia...
In the mid 1840s, the trails from the Missouri frontier are clogged with pioneers searching for a new life in a remote land they call a new Eden. This is the story of the emigrants who go up against the British Hudson's Bay Company to overcome their shattered dreams and make...