Come to the Jackson Homestead and Museum for the Historic Newton Book Club. This month’s book club selection is The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and and the Trans-Mississippi West: 1840-60 by John Unruh Jr. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history and the winner of seven awards for historical writing, The Plains Across is a thoroughly researched study of the Oregon/California Trail. Using newspaper reports, letters, personal journals and diaries as resources, Unruh explores the reasons emigrants undertook the journey and the hardships, perils and sacrifices they endured to establish a new life in the West.
The book club is free and new members are always welcome.
