West With The Wagons (7): Misimpressions

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD/THROWBACK SPECIAL Even Before They Went West, Migrants Craved Information About Native Peoples. But How Much Could They Know?

Annette Laing

Jul 18, 2023

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Map showing about 500 miles of the California and Oregon trail, from Missouri to Scotts Bluff. Despite the lack of detail, one Pawnee village is shown in the east — 1849 map covering about 600 miles of the Oregon and California trall along the Platted River Valley. One Pawnee village is identified on the map. I’m taking a wild guess that this is the one that traveler J. Goldsborough Bruff visited in 1849. Image: Annette Laing, 2018.

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West With The Wagons (6): Fear and Water

Annette Laing

Jul 1

West With The Wagons (6): Fear and Water

“I think none of us have realized until now the perils of this undertaking.” — Total understatement by Margaret Frink, thirty-something entrepreneur and

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