Long Day's Journey by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes - 9780295976914

Long Day's JourneyThe Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West\nAuthor(s): Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295976914, 978-0295976914\nSynopsis\nIn Long Days Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West, trying to establish methods of transportation and communication between the eastern United States and the new territories that became Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyomingfirst by sea, around continents, then by land and water routes across America. Many of the enduring images and myths of the West derive from this era: the Pony Express, mule trains and plodding ox-team freight.