Name: The Emigrant Trail - Paper Cover
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The Emigrant Trail – Paper Cover

$19.95

After a 16 page color section containing maps and art relating to the 49ers, the book then describes three immigrant routes through Western Nevada into California along the Humboldt, Truckee, and Carson Rivers. Photos and directions with 60 maps show the location of 72 “T” shaped rail iron Trail markers. This volume includes essays about the Donner party and other events and places along the routes. More than 260 illustrations in this new enlarged addition and 25 unpublished pictures placing the markers on the trail route during 19 67–19 74. There are essays on Gold Canyon, the 40 Mile Desert, and contemporary personalities. Also included are 180 excerpts from immigrant diarists describing daily stops written on site. An exhaustive study.

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THE EMIGRANT TRAIL, THE LONG ROAD TO CALIFORNA, by Marshall Fey and Stanley Paher. 224 pp. illustrations, maps, historic and modern. After 16-pages of color maps and art relating to the ’49ers, the book then describes three emigrant routes through western Nevada into eastern California along the Humboldt, Truckee, and Carson rivers. Photos and directions with 60 maps show locations of 72 “T”-shaped rail iron trail markers. This volume includes essays about the Donner Party, and other events and places along the routes. More than 260 illustrations in this new enlarged edition and 25 unpublished pictures placing the markers on the trail routes during 1967-1974.
There are essays on Gold Canyon, the Forty-mile Desert, contemporary personalities. Also included are 180 excerpts from emigrant diarists describing daily stops written on-site. An exhaustive study. Color cover. Softcover, $19.95 Hardcover Available by clicking here 29.95.