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So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California 1812–1848 by Will Bagley, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2010, $45. “A tide of immigration appears to be moving this way rapidly,” Narcissa Whitman wrote her mother in the spring of 1840. “We are emphatically situated on the highway between the States and the …
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