The Plains Across The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West 1840-60 by John D. Unruh Jr. 1982 Univ of Illinois Press history
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This is a very good paperback. 1982 University of Illinois Press. This copy is still very clean inside and out. The inside pages are still crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight, NO creasing along spine. The cover is very good with only a hint of shelf wear. Standard trade paperback size or 6" x 9" with 364 pages including index.
The Plains Across by John D. Unruh Jr. is subtitled the Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60. The book was a winner of seven different book awards including Western Heritage Book Award, John H. Dunning Prize, National Historical Society Book Prize and more. It includes a publishers note, foreword and preface. The historical narrative is a significant contribution to the frontier west and those who traversed and settled it. Eleven chapters include; Motivations and Beginnings, Emigrant-Indian Interaction, The Federal Government, Private Entrepreneurs, The Overlanders in Historical Perspective and more.
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