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First printing. "In this fourth volume of The American Trails Series, Stewart writes the epic story of the main covered-wagon route to California which the Bartleston Party - thirty-one men, a woman, and a baby - attempted to open in 1841. They failed but others followed. The result was the establishment of the trail over which surged the great western migration, culminating in ...the Gold Rush of 1849." In more than 200 years the American people had barely advanced 1/3 of the way across the continent; with the opening of the California Trail, they covered the other 2000 miles in less than 10 years, and the covered wagon became an enduring symbol of America. This is the classic account of this trail, compulsively readable, and an early title in the American Trails Series with A.B. Guthrie, series editor. Illustrated with maps, small sketches and mileage charts. Author's note, index. 339 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Very good in very good dust jacket. (neat gift inscription, toning to the spine and edges of the dustjacket.) .

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