As a geoarchaeologist, Whitten's research focuses on Native American migratory routes, Roman Roads of the Levant, and historic trails across North ...
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As a geoarchaeologist, Whitten's research focuses on Native American migratory routes, Roman Roads of the Levant, and historic trails across North America.
In 1999, she was awarded a grant by the National Park Service to travel with a wagon train in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the California Gold Rush. Her responsibilities were to gather terrain, location, weather and environmental data, document personal observations and experiences, and photograph the Overland Trails to advance research on compacted soils. The adventure was a life-changing episode and, as she traveled, a story crystallized within her mind.
This story is true... "Are We There Yet? And Lessons Learned Along the Way" is a Primary Source of historic documentation regarding the state of the trails, terrain and environment as it was in 1999. The story also conveys to students and "children of-all-ages" what such a journey could have meant to the pioneers who traveled those same trails so long ago, as well as some of the lessons learned along the way.
It is the author's sincere desire that this book will engender an awareness of the continued need for the preservation of our Overland Trails… because whenever a portion of our trails is plowed under, built upon or lost, we lose a piece of our history and heritage forever.
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