Journal of Travels From St. Josephs to Oregon

Name: Journal of Travels From St. Josephs to Oregon
Author: Riley Root

by Riley Root

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Journal of Travels From St. Josephs to Oregon With Observations of That Country, Together With Some Description of California, Its Agricultural Interests, and a Full Description of Its Gold Mines.

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by WebRover, MWS, Stephen Hutcheson, The Internet Archive (TIA) and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Release date

2020-05-17

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

California -- Description and travel Overland journeys to the Pacific Oregon -- Description and travel California -- Gold discoveries Oregon Territory -- History F590.3

About the author

Riley Root

1795–1870

A farmer and overland traveler, he left behind a plainspoken firsthand account of the Oregon Trail in 1850. His journal captures the grit, routine, and uncertainty of westward travel from the perspective of someone who actually made the journey.

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