Richard Rieck: 3 books
The Great Medicine Road, Part 3
Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1850–1855
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
In the years after the discovery of gold in California, thousands of fortune seekers made their way west, joining the greatest mass migration in American history. The gold fields were only one destination, as emigrants pushed across the Great Plains, Great Basin, and Oregon Territory in unprecedented...
The Great Medicine Road, Part 2
Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1849
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwright forever altered the future state’s fate. Building a sawmill for Johann August Sutter, James Wilson Marshall struck gold. The rest may be history, but much...
The Great Medicine Road, Part 1
Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1840–1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers’ accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives,...