So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 (Overland West Volume I)

Bagley, Will

ISBN 10: 0806141034 / ISBN 13: 9780806141039

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 2010

SIGNED. 458pp. Quarto [26 cm] Full tan cloth with a black title printed on the spine. With highlighting to the preliminary pages. In a dust jacket, with 4 thick pieces of tape which once held the dust jacket to the book (now cut so the jacket can be freed). Warmly inscribed by Will Bagley, in the year of publication, on the half title: "For___ Surgeon, historian, humanist, humorist, and a great Scotsman, not to mention a superlative friend and pal- To a great second career as a writer, Will Bagley, March 3, 2010." Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails, Volume I, 1812-1848. From the publisher: The story of America s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this magisterial volume, Will Bagley tells why and how this massive emigration began. While many previous authors have told parts of this story, Bagley has recast it in its entirety for modern readers. Drawing on research he conducted for the National Park Service s Long Distance Trails Office, he has woven a wealth of primary sources personal letters and journals, government documents, newspaper reports, and folk accounts into a compelling narrative that reinterprets the first years of overland migration. Illustrated with photographs and historical maps, So Rugged and Mountainous is the first of a projected four-volume history, Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails. This sweeping series describes how the "Road across the Plains" transformed the American West and became an enduring part of its legacy. And by showing that overland emigration would not have been possible without the cooperation of Native peoples and tribes, it places American Indians at the center of trail history, not on its margins. Seller Inventory # 65553

Synopsis:

The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In this highly readable account, John S.D. Eisenhower provides a comprehensive survey of this frequently overlooked war.

About the Author: Will Bagley is an independent historian who has written about overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons. Bagley has published extensively over the years and is the author and editor of many books, articles, and reviews in professional journals. Bagley is the series editor of Arthur H. Clark Company's documentary history series, KINGDOM IN THE WEST: The Mormons and the American Frontier. Bagley has been a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University of Utah and the Archibald Hanna, Jr. Fellow in American History at Yale University's Beinecke Library. Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows has won numerous awards including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, the Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library, Westerners International Best Book, and the Western History Association Caughey Book Prize for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West. So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 is the first of four volumes of Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails Series.

Bibliographic Details

Title: So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the ...
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First edition.