guidebook

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A guidebook is a published work that provides information for travelers. These resources are designed to be helpful during trips, offering details that can assist visitors in navigating and understanding a new place.12

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Oregon Trail
Guidebooks and other practicalities
Travel guidebooks became available to the emigrants shortly after use of the trail became widespread. One of the earliest and most popular of these was Landsford Hastings’s The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (1845). For Mormons, there was The Latter-day…
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Travel guidebooks became available to the emigrants shortly after use of the trail became widespread. One of the earliest and most popular of these was Landsford Hastings’s The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (1845). For Mormons, there was The Latter-day…
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