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Journeys to the Land of Gold This set is in beauti

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Journeys to the Land of Gold This set is in beauti
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This set is in beautiful condition with almost no wear to the books and just a little wear to the slipcase from shelving. Measures approximately 10 ¾” x 7 ½” x 2 ¾”The Bozeman Trail, a shortcut from the Platte River Road to the Montana goldfields, was the West's last great overland emigrant trail. Susan Badger Doyle spent ten years scouring archives and private collections forstories of emigrants who traveled it. Included in these two volumes are every diary and the best of the reminiscences that she found--thirty-three firsthand accounts from 1863 through 1866, when the trail was closedby "Red Cloud's War." Here also are a general overview of the trail's history, separate discussions of each emigrant season, and introductions to each diary. The documents are also thoroughly annotated and illustratedwith historical photographs and detailed maps of the trail that show how the routes changed from year to year--and sometimes from train to train. Enhancing the compendium is an after word by acclaimed western historian