This is a monograph by Louis Palenske, detailing his 1930 trip across the Oregon Trail and California Trail. Along the way, he took many panoramic photographs of the landscape. In 1936, Palenske used over 80 of the panoramas to illustrate his re-publication of Alonzo Delano's tale of the gold-seeking '49ers called "Across the Plains and Among the Diggings." Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.