In the mid-1840s, the trails west from the Missouri frontier were clogged with pioneers searching for a new life in a remote land they thought was another Eden. In The Fields of Eden Richard S. Wheeler shows us a handful of these emigrants who arrived at the gates of Arcadia at a time when the British Hudson's Bay Company controlled the Oregon country and resisted every American effort to push the republic’s boundaries to the Pacific. This is a story of people who fought to overcome their shattered dreams and made possible the settlement of Old Oregon.
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information. There are other authors with this name. One writes Marine Corps history. Another, Civil War history. Another writes in the political sciences. Richard S. (Shaw) Wheeler was born in Milwaukee in 1935 and grew up in nearby Wauwatosa.
