On the Overland Trails with William Clark
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On the Overland Trails with William Clark

A Teamster's Utah War, 1857–1858

  1. 245 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

On the Overland Trails with William Clark

A Teamster's Utah War, 1857–1858

About this book

The Utah War remains an understudied but important moment in western history as the United States wrestled with its political future. There are few primary accounts from this war, but one of the best comes from William Clark, a young teamster hired by Russell, Majors and Waddell, the West’s greatest freighters. Clark’s narrative, “A Trip Across the Plains in 1857,” was not published until 1922 and only then in an obscure journal with little annotation, so for the last hundred years, this work has been a valuable but obscure document.

In On the Overland Trails with William Clark William P. MacKinnon and Kenneth L. Alford have remedied this historiographical oversight by providing material entirely missing from the original printing, including an explanation of the Utah War’s origins and prosecution; maps by which to chart Clark’s travels; illustrations to enliven major players; and annotations to clarify the sometimes arcane people, places, incidents, and issues mentioned. Also included for the first time is an account of the manuscript’s colorful provenance.

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Yes, you can access On the Overland Trails with William Clark by William P. MacKinnon,Kenneth L. Alford in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Military & Maritime History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Bison Books
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781496242433
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Part 1. Understandings
  9. Editors’ Introduction
  10. Editorial Decisions
  11. Background and Context: The Utah War
  12. Part 2. William Clark’s Edited Reminiscences
  13. Section 1: “We Had an Eye on California”
  14. Section 2: “I Was Starving with a Train Loaded with Provisions”
  15. Section 3: “They Make the Earth Tremble”
  16. Section 4: “Consider Yourselves Discharged”
  17. Section 5: “Grand and Beautiful Scenery”
  18. Section 6: “A Sage Brush Country”
  19. Section 7: “The Boss, Seeing They Had No Show, Surrendered”
  20. Section 8: “Into Winter Quarters”
  21. Section 9: “Saddle Up and Be Quick about It”
  22. Section 10: “Difficult for a Man to Escape Their Vengeance”
  23. Section 11: “We Started, Badly Scared Inside”
  24. Section 12: “Enough to Make a Man’s Blood Run Cold”
  25. Section 13: “Back to Wisconsin”
  26. Appendix A: The Pomeroy and Kingston Story
  27. Appendix B: William and Cora Clark’s Later Years
  28. Appendix C: William Clark’s Obituaries
  29. Appendix D: Status Differences among Teamsters
  30. Part 3. Meaning
  31. Editors’ Epilogue
  32. Editors’ Conclusions
  33. Notes
  34. About the Editors
  35. Index