The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60
John B. Unruh
The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60
John B. Unruh
The Plains Across won the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, the Ray A. Billington Book Award of the Organization of American Historians, and the National Historical Society Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
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- University of Illinois Press
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- 9780252063602
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Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryShortlistedMajor(1980)
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