The Way West Guthrie, A. B. Jr. Fiction,West And Southwest

340 pages : maps ; 22 cm. ; green-backed gray boards ; dj. Stated first printing. NOT BCE. Dj worn and chipped at extremities. A hundred-odd men, women, and children gathered at the rendezvous a few miles outside of Independence. They were solid, established folk, most of them, and they were leaving behind prosperous farms and businesses because they shared a dream about the rich lands in the West, where a man, his wife, and their young ones might make a better life and a new world more desirable than any Americans before them had ever known.