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The Wagon Master's Tale

The Wagon Master's Tale

by Marcelline BurkeVisiting Fellow Paul Burke and Marcelline Burke
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/09/2013

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Danger, Terror, and Hardships: The Price of Yearning For the Golden West... The Beale Trail was named after the surveyor who accepted the federal government's request for a safe and speedy route across much of the Southwest for wagon trains and the pony express. California was beginning to entice Easterners and Midwesterners to seek their fortunes in the new lands. Up until Beale undertook the task of surveying and mapping such a route, travelers were at a disadvantage. Passage was extremely difficult due to mountains, deserts, and uninhabited regions without access to needed supplies, and the threat of Indian attacks was always imminent. This tale, although purely and entirely fiction, resonates with the truth of the first few "pilgrimages" that were made across country on the Trail. The characters in the story are fictional and have no connection to those of the unfortunate travelers who lost their lives in the first early attempt to reach California. Readers of this narrative might enjoy reading about the Beale Trail, the massacre that occurred, and the history that followed the wagon trains that ventured to take this route to the gold fields, etc., of California.
ISBN:
9781432799755
9781432799755
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-09-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Outskirts Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
78
Dimensions (mm):
203x127x5mm
Weight:
0.09kg

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