Independence!
Dana Fuller Ross
- Toronto New York Bantam 1978
- 432 p. 18 cm.
- Wagons West v. 1 .
"Bantam advance reading copy"--Cover.
In 1837, President Andrew Jackson, in a race with the British and Russians, sends a wagon train of would-be settlers to the uncharted Oregon territory. A colorful group of pioneers sets off from New York, heading westward to Independence, Missouri-- the last outpost of civilization before the unknown and treacherous dangers of a new frontier