In this issue:
- Ho! For California on the Mexican Gold Trail – Patricia A. Etter
- “You Will Commence a Pilgrimage” Instructions given to the 1838 W. E. Gray missionary party before it departed for the Oregon Territory – Introduction by Norman L. Wilson
- The First Overland Letter to California – William A. Barnett
- Oregon Trail: Last of the Pioneers – Rick Steber (Book Review by Merrill J. Mattes)
- Frontiersman: Abner Blackburn’s Narrative – Ed. Will Bagley (Book Review by Niel M. Johnson)