B&W Photographs; SIGNED EDITION. Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine of book. Text pages clean & bright. Book has been signed by author on the title page. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a nice bright copy. Includes a foreword by Merrill J. Mattes. --Between 1841 and 1860, some two hundred thousand emigrants trod the trail to California, forging their way across the vast, inhospitable -Great American Desert-, in an incredible feat that ranks as one of our more inspiring national epics. What was it that triggered such a mass migration?--. ; Signed by Author

Californiana California History William E. Hill Merrill J. Mattes The California Trail Pioneer Life Old West Western Americana CA: History