The Plains Across

Front cover of The Plains Across, 1979 edition.

The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60 is a 1979 history book by John D. Unruh, Jr., first published by the University of Illinois Press, about on overland travel across the Great Plains prior to the Civil War.[1] It was a finalist for the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for History.[2]

The book was a revised doctoral dissertation written at the University of Kansas under George L. Anderson and Clifford S. Griffin. It covers mainly the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.

  1. ^ John David Unruh (1993). The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06360-2.
  2. ^ "History". Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 20 April 2015.