Review: Michael L. Tate, ed. The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, Part 4: 1856–1869. Edited with the assistance of Kerin Tate, Will Bagley, and Richard L. Rieck. Norman, Oklahoma: The Arthur H. Clark Company, an imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.

Authors

Juliette Bourdin

Keywords

overland trails, American West, The Great Medicine Road

Abstract

The four-volume series The Great Medicine Road offers a collection of primary sources about the overland trails across the American West in the nineteenth century. Originally designed by Will Bagley, a leading expert on trails history, and Richard L. Rieck, a professor of geography, the project was carried out by Michael L. Tate, a professor of history emeritus at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. The first volume, published in 2014, included fifteen sources for the period 1840–1848, encompassing the early years of migration on the overland trails. The second volume Smith’s path, a woman with her man following her lead. Actually walking the landscape where it all happened with this chapter in your hands is a meditative journey that focuses the mind on those founders and their events. So, as happens all too often in American religious history, the quest is led by a woman, while the history and victory are taken by a man. But, and even so, this Book of Hours is devoted to a woman.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Bourdin, Juliette (2023) "Review: Michael L. Tate, ed. The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, Part 4: 1856–1869. Edited with the assistance of Kerin Tate, Will Bagley, and Richard L. Rieck. Norman, Oklahoma: The Arthur H. Clark Company, an imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 10: No. 1, Article 13.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol10/iss1/13