Choice 评论
Traveling more than 2,000 miles from Missouri to the Pacific over the Oregon Trail, Winfield Scott Ebey recorded details of the 169 days it took his family and friends to reach their destination on Puget Sound, where his brother Isaac had established himself on Whidbey Island. Though this is an individual narrative, it mirrors common experiences and expectations shared by all white Euramerican settlers heading west from the Missouri in the hope of finding a more promising future. This is neither repetitious nor boring reading, but instead is remarkably interesting, filled with accounts of daily experiences and, surprisingly, of the almost casual encounter with other humans, Native American and white, in what is often mistakenly regarded as a vast and empty wilderness. Maps and descriptive footnotes provided by the editors locate the route of the Ebey train and serve as a reference guide to its location today. There is a roster of the Ebey train members, an account of the nearby Ward Train massacre, and the subsequent lives of both Ebey brothers. All levels. M. J. Butler University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Choice 评论
Traveling more than 2,000 miles from Missouri to the Pacific over the Oregon Trail, Winfield Scott Ebey recorded details of the 169 days it took his family and friends to reach their destination on Puget Sound, where his brother Isaac had established himself on Whidbey Island. Though this is an individual narrative, it mirrors common experiences and expectations shared by all white Euramerican settlers heading west from the Missouri in the hope of finding a more promising future. This is neither repetitious nor boring reading, but instead is remarkably interesting, filled with accounts of daily experiences and, surprisingly, of the almost casual encounter with other humans, Native American and white, in what is often mistakenly regarded as a vast and empty wilderness. Maps and descriptive footnotes provided by the editors locate the route of the Ebey train and serve as a reference guide to its location today. There is a roster of the Ebey train members, an account of the nearby Ward Train massacre, and the subsequent lives of both Ebey brothers. All levels. M. J. Butler University of Massachusetts Dartmouth