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Book SynopsisThe wagon trail between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles is one of the most important but least-known roads of nineteenth-century western migration. This book tells the first history of the complete Southern Route and of the people who developed and used it. It also discusses the exploration and development of the Old Spanish Trail.
Trade Review"The excellent quality of research and writing, the addition of many photographs and maps, make this easily read book the final word on the topic." - Utah Historical Quarterly "Lyman has captured for us the essence and significance of this forbidding trail and elevated it into the mainstream of western trail history." - Southern California Quarterly "Edward Leo Lyman here presents a comprehensive chronicle of the Southern Trail that stretched from Deseret's capital at Salt Lake City to the Mormon outpost established in 1850 at San Bernardino....This is a book that will appeal to Mormons interested in their past and to students of western trails history." - Journal of American History "This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Southern Route from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles." - Spanish Traces, newsletter of the Old Spanish Trail Association"
