Steptoe : The Victors and the Vanquished on the Trail to Oregon
Book Details
Author(s)
Boyd Hartman
Publisher
Booktango
ISBN / ASIN
B00APD8R2K
ISBN-13
978B00APD8R22
Sales Rank
#1,552,439
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
The Oregon Trail was the site of countless American stories, but few of them have been told. Along its dusty miles, hundreds of thousands of bold travelers encountered hardship and tragedy, in the hope of a better tomorrow just beyond the horizon. Steptoe presents a tribute in fiction to those adventurers and the people they encountered on their journey west to a new life during the American Great Migration.
Even so, not everyone was benefitted by the dreams of the settlers, and millions paid a terrible price. Steptoe explores the tragedy that beset the native population as the white man’s diseases and ambition drove the Indians from their sacred hunting grounds, forever ending their way of life.
The American West was the land of dreams, big and small, and many of the players come to life in this historical novel, including Senator Thomas Hart Benton, who struggled to make St Louis the gateway to the West, and President James T. Polk, who focused his considerable powers to drive the Mexicans, British, and Russians out of his country. The colorful stories of historical figures Kit Carson, John Freemont, Oliver Winchester, Leland Stanford, Captain John Gunnison, Joseph Meek, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant and other notable personages of the era are entwined with the lives of the fictional characters, producing a rich blend of the life and times of the Great Migration.
Even so, not everyone was benefitted by the dreams of the settlers, and millions paid a terrible price. Steptoe explores the tragedy that beset the native population as the white man’s diseases and ambition drove the Indians from their sacred hunting grounds, forever ending their way of life.
The American West was the land of dreams, big and small, and many of the players come to life in this historical novel, including Senator Thomas Hart Benton, who struggled to make St Louis the gateway to the West, and President James T. Polk, who focused his considerable powers to drive the Mexicans, British, and Russians out of his country. The colorful stories of historical figures Kit Carson, John Freemont, Oliver Winchester, Leland Stanford, Captain John Gunnison, Joseph Meek, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant and other notable personages of the era are entwined with the lives of the fictional characters, producing a rich blend of the life and times of the Great Migration.
