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Preface | ||
Introduction: The Historians and the Overlanders | 3 | |
Ch. 1 | Public Opinion, 1849-60: "Palpable Homicide" Or "Merry as a Marriage Bell"? | 28 |
Ch. 2 | Public Opinion, 1849-60: Humbugging and Helping | 62 |
Ch. 3 | Motivations and Beginnings: "Life at a Fair" | 90 |
Ch. 4 | Emigrant Interaction: "Our Journey Has Not Been as Solitary as We Feared" | 118 |
Ch. 5 | Emigrant-Indian Interaction: From "Mutual Aid" To "Massacres" | 156 |
Ch. 6 | The Federal Government: "Good Fellow Uncle Sam Is" | 201 |
Ch. 7 | Private Entrepreneurs, 1840-49: "While Others Are Chasing Wealth They Are Catching It, No Dream" | 244 |
Ch. 8 | Private Entrepreneurs, 1850-60: "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth" | 267 |
Ch. 9 | The Mormon "Halfway House": "It Cost Nothing to Get in, But a Great Deal to Get Out" | 302 |
Ch. 10 | West Coast Assistance: "Are You Men from California, Or Do You Come from Heaven?" | 338 |
Ch. 11 | The Overlanders in Historical Perspective: "To Endure Heat Like a Salamander. . . and Labor Like a Jackass" | 379 |
Notes | 417 | |
Bibliography | 519 | |
Index | 555 |
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