WILDERNESS CALLING: THE HARDEMAN FAMILE IN THE AMERICAN WESTWARD MOVEMENT, 1750 – 1900.
Nicholas Perkins. Hardeman
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977. xiv,357pp. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps (7). Genealogy chart. Brown cloth with title in gilt on the spine. First edition. Fine copy. The clipped dust jacket has a short crease along the top edge, overall, very good. The author traces the Hardeman from Virginia, across the Appalachians, to the Holston valley and down the river route to the Cumberland Basin. Then on to Missouri Territory, Santa Fe, and Teas, across the continent to Oregon and from there southward to the gold fields of California. Contains chapters on the Santa Fe Trail, the Texas Revolution, Texas in the republic period, migration to Oregon, and the gold fields of California.