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Overview
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press19 veteran authors, members of the Western Writers of America all, have been collected in this volume of essays detailing the travails and triumphs of the whites who emigrated rest along the Pioneer Trails.
Synopsis
Some of the greatest American writers have combined talents to produce a classic book of American wilderness trails. Nineteen chapters feature the old roads and trails which criss-crossed early America from the east coast to the western shore.
Editorials
Pacific Historian
"Aficionados of the American West will find here a book they have been waiting for."—W. Turrentine Jackson, Pacific Historian
— W. Turrentine Jackson
The Book World
"Pioneer Trails West is well written and is and absorbing account of one phase of our western heritage. Western devotees need go no farther; this one will hold your attention through the winter."—The Book WorldPacific Historian -
"Aficionados of the American West will find here a book they have been waiting for."—W. Turrentine Jackson, Pacific HistorianThe Book World
"Pioneer Trails West is well written and is and absorbing account of one phase of our western heritage. Western devotees need go no farther; this one will hold your attention through the winter."—The Book World