MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES
Migration Trails
Unruh, John D. jr. The Plains Across. The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840 - 1860. University of Illinois Press. Chicago and Urbana. Paperback ed. 1982. 364 pages. Softcover.
A brilliant and detailed history of the motivations for westward travel, emigrant interactions with each other and with Native Americans, federal government intervention, and private entrepreneurs.
Price: $8.00
California Trail
No books at this time.Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Gray, Ralph D. The National Waterway. A History of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1769 - 1985. University of Illinois Press. Urbana and Chicago. 2nd edition. 1989. 330 pages. Softcover.
This is a record of the political, financial, and legal struggle to develop the canal. This second edition brings the history of the canal up through the 1980's, during which time it was transformed from a small canal to an inland waterway with dimensions capable of accommodating all but the largest ocean-going vessels.
Price: $10.00
Gila Trail
Faulk, Odie B. Destiny Road. The Gila Trail and the Opening of the Southwest. Oxford University Press. New York. 1973. 232 pages. Hardcover.
Note: there is a black streak across the bottom outside pages, but not visible on individual pages when the book is open.
Stretching from Texas west to san Diego, the trail linked the newly acquired California territory with the rest of the nation and became the most famous stagecoach road between the two. This was one of the routes used by the Overland Mail.
Price: $22.50
Natchez Trace
No books at this time.Oregon Trail
Ghent, W. J. The Road to Oregon. A Chronicle of the Great Emigrant Trail. Tudor Publishing Co. New York. 1929. Reprinted 1934. 274 pages. Hardcover.
Discusses Jim Bridger, Marcus Whitman, John Bidwell and other early pioneers, various forts, the gold rush, and much more.
Price: $25.00