Seven Trails West: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art

by Arthur King Peters

This volume tells many stories in the epic tale of men and women (some of them famous trailbreakers, some little known); the lures that attracted these pragmatic dreamers to the West; and the ordeals and disappointments they overcame along the way. Illustrated with archival photographs, paintings, maps and documents, the book offers the general reader an overview of the western trail network that bound an immature nation together and provided an armature for later development.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

252 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1996

Reviews

[booklady]

Picked this up on a trip out West. It covers:
1.) The Lewis and Clark Expedition
2.) Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
3.) The Santa Fe Trail
4.) The Oregon-California Trail
5.) The Mormon Trail
6.) The Pony Express
7.) The First Continental Telegraph and Railroad

Our family has traveled on portions of each.

[Cindy Dyson Eitelman]

It seems that I read this book some number of years ago. When I picked it up at the library it seemed familiar and grew more so as I read along. So I don't the feeling of fresh enthusiasm in writing this review that the book deserves.

It's a well-written, enjoyable story of seven of the most traveled roads in America. Before there were roads. Or, at least, not roads going from Saint Joseph to Sacramento! Excellent travel reading.

[Candida]

This was a great historical book it had great pictures and lots of interesting facts.