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Heading for California in the mid-1800s
A young pioneer girl, Sallie Hester, describes the experience of the wagon trail in 1849. There is an examination of the motivations of the migrants who travelled west to reach California. The magnitude of the undertaking is developed very effectively, as is the scale of the migration enterprise. Finally, there is an overview of the nature and origins of the migrants themselves.
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