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Illustrations from
THE ROAD TO OREGON:
A Chronicle of the Great Emigrant Trail

by W. J. Ghent, 1929
"Emigrant Train in the Rocky Mountains
From a rare print of an engraving by F. F. Palmer (1866)"
"Methodist Mission at the Dallas
Drawn by Major Osborne Cross (1849)"
"Fort Laramie in 1842
F
rom Fremont's Report"
"Whitman's Mission at Waiilatpu in 1843
From Myron Eells' 'Marcus Whitman, Pathfinder and Patriot" (1909)"
"Independence Rock
Drawn by Major Osborne Cross (1849)"
"Fort Boise
Drawn by Major Osborne Cross (1849)"
"Fort Walla Walla
From Myron Eells' 'Marcus Whitman' (1903)"
           Emigrant Train Crossing Nebraska
From Henry Howe's 'Historical Collections
the Great West' (1859)"
"The Corrall
From T. S. Kenderdine's 'A California Tramp' (1888)"   
"Descent After Leaving the Blue Mountains
Drawn by Major Osborne Cross (1849)"
"Fort Sutter
From Joseph W. Revere's 'A Tour of Duty in California' (1849)"
An Overloaded Concord Coach
From an old photograph
"Troops Guarding the Overland Mail
from a photograph of an old drawing
published in 'The Overland Stage' "
Ghosts of the past.....the tracks of the Oregon Trail,
if they could speak, what stories they would tell.
"Tracks of the Trail in Western Wyoming
From Grace Raymond Hebard's
'The Pathbreakers from River to Ocean' "
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