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Indlæser... Overland, the California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870 [landscape photos of historic sites associated with the Gold Rush, the environment, and landscape survey] (udgave 1995)
Work InformationOverland: The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870 af Greg MacGregor
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It has been over 150 years since pioneers first went west from Missouri, across Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Nevada into California, across the vast plains, formidable mountains, and desert. Although the route known as the California Emigrant Trail is mostly unmarked today, much evidence remains. Photographer Greg MacGregor has researched the trail and traveled it for thousands of miles. He has photographed the eroded ruts, emigrant graves, pieces of burned and abandoned wagons. He has also photographed what has sprung up over the trail: KOA campgrounds, golf courses, housing developments. The images are poignant, sometimes amusing, occasionally downright terrifying, and always fascinating in what they reveal about pioneer overland travel. Showing these photographs with excerpts from emigrants' diaries and advice from nineteenth-century guidebooks, Greg MacGregor presents us with a vivid and intimate picture of what the journey was like for those with no idea of what lay ahead. At the same time he captures the ironies in the landscape of the late-twentieth-century West. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)917.94044History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in North America West Coast U.S. CaliforniaLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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