The Applegate Trail of 1846: A Documentary Guide to the Original Southern Emigrant Route to Oregon

Editorial Reviews:

"The Applegate Trail Of 1846 is a recommended addition to school and community library western American history collections."

- Reviewed by John Taylor, reviewer of The Midwest Book Review, January 2, 2002

"The best guide is William Emerson's The Applegate Trail of 1846."

- Article by Peter Fish, senior editor of SUNSET magazine, October 1998

"...prodigious research... an excellent source book. Trail buffs should definitely make it a part of their library collection."

- Reviewed by Robert A. Clark, editor of OVERLAND JOURNAL, Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 2002

The Applegate Trail of 1846, describes the events that happened more than 150-years-ago, on the first wagon train, to take the trail through southern Oregon that would later be called the Applegate Trail. This trail left the Oregon Trial near Fort Hall in Idaho, and used the established California Trail through Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and California, to become the new southern emigrant route into the Willamette Valley of Oregon.