Sierra summit
Virginia Besaw Evansen
Hardcover
(D. McKay Co, March 15, 1967)
This is the tale of the first successful crossing of the Western mountains to California by wagon. The Stephens-Murphy-Townsend party started from Missouri in March, 1844 -- twenty-six men, eight women and seventeen children -- headed for the Sierra Nevada Mountains (from publisher's note on dustjacket).