A wagon train faced a long and arduous trip. It was mid-April 1851 when a wagon train left Illinois, headed for the Northwest region. Led by Arthur...
On the Road to Seattle
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Seattle
Asa Mercer And “Go West Young Woman” He got ambitious and decided to import 1,000 marriageable women. He didn't quite succeed in getting that many, but...
Asa Mercer was a "marriage arranger." He was from New England and went out to Seattle where he noticed a severe shortage of marriageable women. So...
North to the Gold Country
Follow the 1898 Klondike and Alaska miners’ overland route from Sacramento to Seattle.