Hard Road West

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ISBN: 9780226519623 | 0226519627
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/15/2008

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Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Gold Trail, Meldahl uses the diaries and letters of the 1849 settlers to reveal how geology and topography directly affected our nations westward expansion.

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Preface
Introduction: Stardust
An American Journey
Between Winter’s Chill Brackets
Ascending the Plains
Exhumed Mountains and Hungry Rivers
Black Hills and Bent Rock
To the Backbone of the Continent
Cordilleran Upheaval
Most Godforsaken Country
The Bear and the Snake
A Breaking Up of the World
Most Miserable River
The Worst Desert You Ever Saw
Into the Land of Gold
Contingent History
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Figure
Credits
Index
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