Oregon Trail and Its Pioneers: Essays, Diary Excerpts and Other Writings

Few individuals know the Oregon Trail as intimately as author Michael P. Jones does through his writings, research, & travels. This is demonstrated in his book The Oregon Trail & Its Pioneers: Essays, Diary Excerpts, & Other Writings. The Oregon Trail & Its Pioneers: Essays, Diary Excerpts, & Other Writings features some contributions gleaned from history by such individuals as Joel Palmer, a pioneer of the 1840's, Jesse Applegate of the now-famed 1843 "cow column", excerpts from the diary of John K. Townsend, an 1843 naturalist, in addition to contemporary writers who take the facts of the past & transition these experiences into important written resources for education. This hardbound book has captured the essence of not only the historical facts of the long ordeal that emigrants had to suffer & endure in their quest to get to the so-called "New Eden" - the Williamette Valley - but has also sifted out the romantic misconceptions & substituted them with reality. Michael P. Jones, editor, also incorporates some of his own works, chronicalizing the western-most route of the Oregon Trail over Oregon's Mt. Hood, in a mean stretch of Trail known as the Barlow Trail - the first toll road over the Cascade Mountains. He is also one writer who finally treats the Indians that the emigrante encountered along this ancient Trail with both respect & accuracy.Jones, Michael P. is the author of 'Oregon Trail and Its Pioneers: Essays, Diary Excerpts and Other Writings', published 1990 under ISBN 9780899042985 and ISBN 0899042988.