Author: Donald Lee ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Lost Wagon Train of 1853
Author: Donald Lee ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The Lost Wagon Train of 1853
Author: Brian BehnThe Lost Rescue
Author: Daniel OwenPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519201119
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In 1853, a wagon train camped in the Eastern Oregon desert 130 miles from the Oregon Trail. Uncertain of their whereabouts and in desperate need of supplies, they sent a scouting party over the mountains for help. This is the true story of Elijah Elliott's "Advance Party." Becoming lost in the Three Sisters Wilderness, they tell their own story of starvation and loyalty through two parallel diaries. The Lost Rescue includes a history of Oregon's lost wagon trains. In 1845, 1,050 men, women and children followed Stephen Meek into the wilderness because of threats made by the Walla Walla and Cayuse Indians. Seeking a short-cut across the Eastern Oregon desert, they faced a mysterious illness as they forged a new path through the desert. In 1853, Elijah Elliott attempted to lead a large group on the same cutoff. After a costly wrong turn, he found himself at the end of a rope while an angry mob weighed his fate. As they journeyed west, the starving train made own way across the desert, facing hunger and intense thirst. In an act of desperation, the emigrants set their animals free and followed them to the distant waters of the Deschutes River.
Roster
Author: W. W. BristowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elliott Cut-off
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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Lost Wagon Train of 1853
Author: Andrew S. McClurePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Lost Wagon Train of 1853
Author: Agnes StewartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Partial List of Members of the Lost Wagon Train
Author: Ruth E. RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Typescript partial list of members traveling in the 1853 lost wagon train led by Elijah Elliott on a detour over the Meek cutoff; Elliott underestimated the difficulties of the trail, leading to much suffering and death among the party; arranged alphabetically by family name.
Esther and Joseph Lyman Letters about 1853 Lost Wagon Train
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Meek Cutoff
Author: Brooks Geer RagenPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia River to The Dalles was grueling and dangerous. About 1,200 men, women, and children in over two hundred wagons accepted fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek's offer to lead them on a shortcut across the trackless high desert of eastern Oregon. Those who followed Meek experienced a terrible ordeal when his memory of the terrain apparently failed. Lost for weeks with little or no water and a shortage of food, the Overlanders encountered deep dust, alkali lakes, and steep, rocky terrain. Many became ill and some died in the forty days it took to travel from the Snake River in present-day Idaho to the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. Stories persist that children in the group found gold nuggets in a small, dry creek bed along the way. From 2006 to 2011, Brooks Ragan and a team of specialists in history, geology, global positioning, metal detecting, and aerial photography spent weeks every spring and summer tracing the Meek Cutoff. They located wagon ruts, gravesites, and other physical evidence from the most difficult part of the trail, from Vale, Oregon, to the upper reaches of the Crooked River and to a location near Redmond where a section of the train reached the Deschutes. The Meek Cutoff moves readers back and forth in time, using surviving journals from members of the 1845 party, detailed day-to-day maps, aerial photographs, and descriptions of the modern-day exploration to document an extraordinary story of the Oregon Trail.
Agnes Stewart Diary, Elizabeth Stewart Warner Letter
Author: Agnes StewartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The diary describes her journey from Pennsylvania to Oregon.