Seeing the Elephant

by Hunsaker, Joyce Badgley

• ISBN13: 9780896725041
• ISBN10: 0896725049
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr

Summary

"Theirs was America's single largest voluntary, historical migration. From the late 1830s to the mid-1870s, nearly half a million ordinary folk left farms and families, friends, and all that was familiar to turn their faces west, to Oregon, California, the valley of the Great Salt Lake, and the gold fields of Montana. All "saw the elephant" along the Oregon Trail."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface	IX
Acknowledgments	XI
Introduction	XIV
What Happened When: A Brief Chronology	1	(5)
GOING TO OREGON
Wagon Train By-Laws, 1849	6	(1)
Articles of Agreement, 1864	7	(2)
Outfit for Oregon, 1847	9	(2)
From Emigrant's Guide to California, 1849	11	(2)
From The Prairie Traveler: Handbook for Overland Travelers, 1859	13	(2)
From Ox Team Days on the Oregon Trail, 1852	15	(4)
THE VOICES
History and Interpretation	19	(2)
Narcissa Whitman, Into the Unknown, 1836	21	(27)
Let's Interpret	39	(9)
Thomas Jefferson Farnham, Go West, Young Man! 1839	48	(32)
Let's Interpret	72	(8)
Jesse Applegate, A Boy's Grand Adventure, 1843	80	(30)
Let's Interpret	103	(7)
Catherine Sager, Oregon Trail Orphan, 1844	110	(20)
Let's Interpret	123	(7)
Abigail Scott, Where Many Fond Hopes Have Been Laid, 1852	130	(24)
Let's Interpret	148	(6)
Ezra Meeker, The Trail Was a Battlefield, 1852	154	(23)
Let's Interpret	170	(7)
Helen Stewart, Oh Dear, Oh Dear! This Is Going to Oregon, 1853	177	(20)
Let's Interpret	191	(6)
Fincelius G. Burnett, Army Indian Fighter on the Overland Trail, 1865	197	(21)
Let's Interpret	212	(6)
Mrs. Lucy Alice Ide, Trail's End-Thus We All Are Scattered, 1878	218	(21)
Let's Interpret	232	(7)
Summary	239	(4)
Historical Photographs and Artifacts	243	(10)
Bibliography	253	(4)
Index	257