This Emigrating Company: The 1884 Oregon Trail Journal Of Jacob Hammer And The Wagon Trains Of '44. A Comparative View Of The Individual Caravans In The Emigration Of 1844 To Oregon

THOMAS A RUMER

Publication: Arthur H Clark Company, 1990, Spokane

American Trail Series XVI & XVII. Limited to 750 copies. First editions. Cloth, 274pp. and 273pp. Numerous illustrations, 12 Maps. Newly discovered and previously unpublished, Jacob Hammers journal provides a day-to-day narrative of the first group up the north side of the Platte and North Platte rivers, a route later taken by a third of all migrants, including the Mormons. The second volume examines each individual caravan in this pioneering migration of 1844. "Examines every facet of that migration...definitive."--Merrill J. Mattes. As New in dust jackets, with original prospectuses for each volume laid-in.

Inventory Number: 50546