The Applegate Trail of 1846: A Documentary Guide to the Original Southern Emigrant Route to Oregon - Softcover

Emerson, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1889082007 ISBN 13: 9781889082004

Publisher: Ember Enterprises, 1996

Synopsis

The book includes: twelve illustrations, twelve maps, thirty-five black and white photos, an appendix of names including other names for the Applegate Trail, names of the exploring party, the volunteer road party, emigrants on the first wagon train and names of the relief parties. Also included is a glossary, bibliography and an index.

About this title

From the Publisher

This book has many uses: it tells some of the history of northwestern United States, it identifies original Applegate Trail locations as seen today, including Interstate-5, Highway 99 and railroad rights of way. It explains the origin of site names along the trail-cites, creeks and rivers, and assists genealogists studying ancestors who took the trail.

From the Author

SYNOPSIS: Chapter one is about the history of the Oregon Territory and those events which led up to the discovery of this new southern route to Oregon. It covers some history of the Hudson Bay pack trail which stretched from Oregon to California. This chapter also explains reasons for the need of a new wagon road for settlers coming from the east.

Chapter two combines Lindsay Applegate and Levi Scott's recollections of exploring and blazing the new trail from the Willamette Valley in Oregon to Fort Hall in Idaho. A fifteen man exploring party traveled south through Oregon, then east to the California Trail. This gave emigrants traveling west an alternate route to Oregon.

Chapter three describes the events and travels of these families using the established California Trail from Fort Hall, Idaho through Idaho, Utah and Nevada to a cut off along the Humboldt River.

Chapter four begins the journey of these emigrants on a new southern route to Oregon, "the Applegate Trail."

Chapter five follows these emigrants through northern California and into Oregon.

The remaining chapters are about the struggles of the emigrants on the new southern wagon road in Oregon. The book combines writings, diaries, recollections and reminiscences to make this story more true to life and true to history. These families worked together to get through the hardships of the southern route to Oregon that has come to be known as "the Applegate Trail."

Edition details

• Publisher: Ember Enterprises
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1889082007
• ISBN 13: 9781889082004
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 158