Across America and Back : Retracing My Great-Grandparents' Remarkable Journey /

After unearthing her great-grandparents' diaries, Mary Ann Hooper set out on a journey to retrace their 1871 trip across the United States on the newly-opened Transcontinental Railroad--via Chicago, just destroyed by the Great Fire, then across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to the Golden...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hooper, Mary Ann, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hooper, Mary Ann, > 1944- > Travel > United States.
Rice, Fannie, > 1844- > Travel > United States.
Rice, Charles, > 1838- > Travel > United States.
Railroad travel > West (U.S.)
Railroad travel > United States.
Brattleboro (Vt.) > Biography.
United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
United States > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • To Chicago
  • destroyed by the Great Fire
  • To Omaha
  • gateway to the West
  • Across the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains
  • Wyoming
  • cowboy and Indian country
  • Salt Lake City and the Mormons
  • Across the desert to San Francisco
  • Arrival in San Francisco
  • Excursion to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles
  • Back in San Francisco for the Chinese New Year
  • Return Home via gold mines and Yosemite Valley.

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