The Plains Across
The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
John D. Unruh, Jr.
University of Illinois Press, 1979
One of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in History and the winner of seven awards, including the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, the Ray A. Billington Book Award of the Organization of American Historians, and the National Historical Society Book Prize.
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