Westward Go!: Fremont, Randy, and Kit Carson Open Wide the Oregon Trail

Book by T. L. Loftin, Beth Berryman

T.L. Loftin during 20 years as researcher-writer in National Geographic's Special Publications (books) Division, Washington, D.C., authored as Tee Loftin Snell AMERICA'S BEGINNINGS: THE WILD SHORES, published in 1974. (Most public libraries will have one of the 350,000 sold.) She also wrote chapters for a number of Geographic books about diverse subjects in various countries. Before joining the Geographic staff, she wrote for radio and TV, was for 10 years the Capitol-accredited Washington reporter for her hometown daily, The Kinston, N.C. Free Press---all while she was caring for a two-children family. In 1980, she edited-wrote, then published trapper Andy Nault's adventure book STAYING ALIVE IN ALASKA'S WILD, Alaska's best seller in 1981. In 1989, after retiring from the National Geographic, she completed the research and writing, then published CONTEST FOR A CAPITAL, true story in novel form of our founding fathers' 8-year fight with each other about where to locate the national capital city. Bookstores in the Smithsonian, U.S. Archives, Library of Congress, D.C. Historical Society, commercial bookstores in D.C., and Disney World in Orlando, FL, sold the book. Her picturemap poster of Civil War Washington sold at Ford's Theater for 25 years, her picturemap poster of Washington 1800 still sells at Octagon House. Ms. Loftin has a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri, an M.A. in Journalism from American University in Washington, D.C. Since 1992, she has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico. WESTWARD GO! her fourth book, was published in January 2000.