{"product_id":"with-golden-visions-bright-before-them-2-trails-to-the-mining-west-1849-1852-9780806142845","title":"With Golden Visions Bright Before Them, 2: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers-men, women, and children-followed the \"road across the plains\" to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle-the second installment of Will Bagley's sweeping Overland West series-captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America's first great rush for riches and its enduring consequences. With narrative scope and detail unmatched by earlier histories, \u003cem\u003eWith Golden Visions Bright Before Them\u003c\/em\u003e retells this classic American saga through the voices of the people whose eyewitness testimonies vividly evoke the most dramatic era of westward migration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraditional histories of the overland roads paint the gold rush migration as a heroic epic of progress that opened new lands and a continental treasure house for the advancement of civilization. Yet, according to Bagley, the transformation of the American West during this period is more complex and contentious than legend pretends. The gold rush epoch witnessed untold suffering and sacrifice, and the trails and their trials were enough to make many people turn back. For America's Native peoples, the effect of the massive migration was no less than ruinous. The impact that tens of thousands of intruders had on Native peoples and their homelands is at the center of this story, not on its margins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written and richly illustrated with photographs and maps, \u003cem\u003eWith Golden Visions Bright Before Them\u003c\/em\u003e continues the saga that began with Bagley's highly acclaimed, award-winning \u003cem\u003eSo Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848\u003c\/em\u003e, hailed by critics as a classic of western history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBagley, Will:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eWill Bagley\u003c\/b\u003e (1950-2021) was an independent historian who has written about overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons. Bagley has published extensively over the years and is the author and editor of many books, articles, and reviews in professional journals. Bagley is the series editor of Arthur H. Clark Company's documentary history series, \u003ci\u003eKINGDOM IN THE WEST: The Mormons and the American Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e. Bagley has been a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University of Utah and the Archibald Hanna, Jr. Fellow in American History at Yale University's Beinecke Library. \u003ci\u003eBlood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows\u003c\/i\u003e has won numerous awards including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, the Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library, Westerners International Best Book, and the Western History Association Caughey Book Prize for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West. \u003ci\u003eSo Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 \u003c\/i\u003eis the first of four volumes of \u003ci\u003eOverland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails Series. \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845380935954,"sku":"9780806142845","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fc041d22-abf8-4d29-aec0-50eecc58e66f.jpg?v=1737349408","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/with-golden-visions-bright-before-them-2-trails-to-the-mining-west-1849-1852-9780806142845","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}