The Overland Journey From Utah To California Wagon Travel From The City Of Saints To The City Of Angels 1st Edition by Edward Leo Lyman ISBN 087417645X 9780874176452

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ISBN 10: 087417645X 
ISBN 13: 9780874176452
Author: Edward Leo Lyman

The wagon trail between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles is one of the most important and least-known elements of nineteenth-century Western migration. Known as the Southern Route, it included the western half of the Old Spanish Trail and was favored because it could be used for travel and freighting year-round. It was, however, likely the most difficult route that pioneers traveled with any consistency, following not rivers but leading from one–sometimes dubious–desert watering place to the next and offering few havens for the sick, weary, or unfortunate. Historian Edward Leo Lyman has provided the first history of the complete Southern Route and of the people who developed and used it. Based on extensive research in primary sources–including many early travelers’ accounts–and on Lyman’s own investigation of the route and its branches, the book discusses the exploration and development of the Old Spanish Trail, its horse thieves and traders, including Jed Smith and Kit Carson, along with government explorere John C. Frémont. Developing the old pack mule trail as a wagon road between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, miners heading for the California gold fields first used the route extensively. Mormon missionaries and the colonizers of San Bernardino and other communities also traveled that way, as did a wide array of mail carriers, soldiers and world travelers. Later, a steady stream of Anglo-American emigrants seeking new homes or fortunes in California shared the road with a surprising number of freight wagon operators. The trail passed through the territories of numerous Native American peoples, and contacts with them–both friendly and hostile–played a significant role in the experiences of travelers and in the fates of Native American cultures in this region. Lyman’s discussions of Mormon-Indian relations and of the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre offer fresh and important analyses of these vital aspects of the westward movement.

The Overland Journey From Utah To California Wagon Travel From The City Of Saints To The City Of Angels 1st Table of contents:

1. Chapter One. Contemporary Impressions Along the Southern Route
2. Chapter Two. The Old Spanish Trail—Highway of Diversity
3. Chapter Three. The Anglo-American Road in 1849
4. Chapter Four. Varied Travelers
5. Chapter Five. Outside Observers and Mormon-Indian Relations
6. Chapter Six. Conflict with the Federal Government—and Tragedy
7. Chapter Seven. Freighting from the Pacific Coast to Utah
8. Chapter Eight. Continued Emigration, Early Mojave Settlement, and Conflict with Native Americans in
9. Chapter Nine. Later Developments at Each End of the Southern Route
10. Chapter Ten. Summary and Conclusions

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