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Journal of Horace Greeley's journey from New York to San Francisco in 1859. "A champion of numerous causes in the mid-nineteenth century, Horace Greeley is probably best remembered today for the slogan "Go West, young man." As the editor of the New York Tribune, a newspaper which had acquired national influence, Greeley could place his views on any subject before a large audience. For a decade before the Civil War he considered the proposal to construct...

An account of the westward movement of the pioneers which began in 1841, lavishly illustrated with contemporary paintings and photographs.

From the ms. of the author's untitled revision of his Journal; generally distinguished from the Journal by the name "Travelling memoranda."

This program follows the journey from Fort Laramie to Fort Hall, in modern-day Idaho, explaining the problems of trail overcrowding and the dangers of disease (particularly cholera), showing cutoffs and alternate routes, and detailing the great trek of the Mormon pioneers.

Determined to beat Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in a race to the Pacific Ocean, Vermont schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer Ture Teague Kinneson and his nephew Ticonderoga head west.