Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852, WSU Press

The 1852 overland migration, the largest on record, was a year in which cholera took a terrible toll on lives. Firsthand accounts, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman, convey the journey’s hardships and heartbreak. “A superb contribution to Oregon Trail scholarship.”—Susan Badger-Doyle, Oregon-California Trails Association Illustrations / photographs / maps / notes / bibliography / index / 256 pages (2001) Listen to an interview with Weldon Rau on TVW's Author's Hour

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This volume opens a window to the travails of the overland journeyers-their stark camps, treacherous river fording, their trepidation at crossing

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