Saleratus & Sagebrush: People and Places on the Road West

Except by historians, amateur and professional, the members of the Bidwell-Bartleson party have been generally forgotten. This group was the first true emigrant train to cross South Pass. While the memory of these men has dimmed considerably, the road west which they followed has not, for the route they followed is one of the most famous in the history of human migration--the Oregon Trail. Saleratus & Sagebrush chronicles the journeys of these and many other emigrants on the trails west. Stories about the famous and indispensable Fort Bridger and Fort Laramie, the fork in the road at Soda Springs, women's lives on the trail, the family dog, and tales of Indians, friendly and not-so-friendly are richly enhanced by photographs and several reproductions of work by William Henry Jackson.