Journeys to the Land of Gold
Emigrant Diaries From The Bozeman Trail, 1863-1866
edited by Susan Badger Doyle
foreword by Charles E. Rankin with Afterword by Elliott West
published by Montana Historical Society Press
- Collected here for the first time ever are the surviving eyewitness accounts of the Bozeman's Trail's civilian emigrants: twenty-four diaries written during the journey and nine reminiscences prepared afterward. These accounts describe life on the West's last great emigrant trail, the shortcut from the Platte River Road to the Montana goldfields, from 1863 until 1866, when the route was closed by "Red Cloud's War."
858 pages, 7 x 10, 40 b/w photos, 4 illustrations, 9 map(s), index, appendix, glossary, 6 hardcovers per case, 2 Volume Boxed Set of Fabric Bound Hardcovers
hardcover
ISBN 10: 0917298489
ISBN 13: 9780917298486
$95.00
RELEASE DATE
08/01/2000
- Ample introductions, extensive annotation, historical illustrations, and detailed maps enrich this oversized, two-volume compendium.
