Author: HOUGH, EMERSON (1857-1923)
Title: The covered wagon
Description: New York : Grosset and Dunlap 1922. First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.by Emerson Hough ; illustrated with scenes from the photoplay. a Paramount picture. Series; The Oregon Trail anthology. Physical description; 385 pages. Notes; Map on lining-papers. Summary; The story of a great migration of two thousand men. women and children from Missouri to Oregon in 1848. A novel by Emerson Hough.The Covered Wagon inspired a film by the same title that is considered one of the first great Western films. Hough was well known for writing western and historical stories.This particular taleoutlines the travels of a group emigrating from Kansas to Oregon via the Oregon Trail. The 'Covered Wagon' was a symbol of the American Old West and was also known as a prairie schooner. Subjects; Wagon trains - Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Fiction. Overland journeys to the Pacific - Fiction. Oregon National Historic Trail - Fiction. California - Gold discoveries - Fiction. Genres; Fiction. Historical fiction. Illustrated. Western stories. Weight in Kg appr.:

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