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Wagon Tracks: George Harter's 1864 Journey to California
Edited by Robert D. Harter
2003, Tucson, The Patrice Press, 144 pp, illus, maps, sources, paperback only, A full-color book, it sells for $20.95, plus the usual $4.95 s/h.

With his ancestor's journal in hand, Robert and Nancy Harter took off on an epic retracement of the 1864 route of George Harter, from Omaha to Marysville, Calif. A much-better-than-average emigrant diary, Bob amplified it with observations of his own, and that took a lot of careful sleuthing. A superb photographer, his images of scenes along George's route are reproduced in full color, as are the twenty-four maps of the way west.

The diary is outstanding because George Harter abandoned the traditional California Trail at Fort Bridger, taking the Hastings Cutoff to Salt Lake City, and then the Overland Stage Road (and future Lincoln Highway) across the Utah and Nevada deserts.

 

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