guidebook

travel
Also known as: travel guide

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Oregon Trail

  • Oregon Trail
    In Oregon Trail: Guidebooks and other practicalities

    Travel guidebooks became available to the emigrants shortly after use of the trail became widespread. One of the earliest and most popular of these was Landsford Hastings’s The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (1845). For Mormons, there was The Latter-day…

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