Fields of Eden

In the mid-1840s, the trails west from the Missouri frontier were clogged with pioneers searching for a new life in a remote land they thought was another Eden. In The Fields of Eden Richard S. Wheeler shows us a handful of these emigrants who arrived at the gates of Arcadia at a time when the British Hudson's Bay Company controlled the Oregon country and resisted every American effort to push the republic's boundaries to the Pacific.This is a story of people who fought to overcome their shattered dreams and made possible the settlement of Old Oregon.Wheeler, Richard S. is the author of 'Fields of Eden' with ISBN 9780812579093 and ISBN 0812579097.