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Overland: The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870 |
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Greg MacGregor spent fifteen years on this project, photographing the traces of the mid-19th century Emigrant Trail, which saw some 500,000 Americans set out in covered wagons from starting points like Independence, Missouri, toward California and Oregon. The routes taken by these wagons were so fixed that there are indeed ghostly wheel ruts in the solid rock and faint but indelible marks of human struggle across the American deserts. MacGregor includes pictures of pioneer graveyards and views of sites long paved over, their history resonant only in the extant diaries of those who made the journey. Extracts from such diaries and anecdotes about the places in the photos make an excellent supplement to the photographic document.
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