The Oregon, California and Mormon Trails by Air provides interesting and educational routing options to Portland, Oregon, Reno, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Whether you are a commercial pilot seeking to entertain your passengers a private pilot seeking an alternative to the "$100 burger" or a non-pilot interested in Trail history, this guide book will prove to be a valuable tool and make fascinating reading. Fire up your plane and follow the routes taken one hundred and fifty years ago by over three hundred thousand immigrants. Amaze your friends for years with hundreds of facts like: Thirty thousand of those three hundred thousand died en route and are buried along the Trails. If all those graves were evenly spaced along the route, there would be a grave every two hundred and forty feet along the two-thousand-plus miles of Trail. Enjoy a perspective of the still remaining ruts that is denied to those bound by gravity as you follow the Trails using the maps and route descriptions included in this guide. Coordinates for the major attractions allow detailed plotting and locating of landmarks that were used by those who were bound for Oregon, California and Salt Lake City.--Cover