Record details

• ISBN: 029905070X
• ISBN: 9780299050702
• Physical Description: 75a, xx, 758 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
• Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published in 1849 under title: The California and Oregon Trail.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 711-729) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The frontier -- Breaking the ice -- Fort Leavenworth -- "Jumping off" -- The "big blue" -- The Platte and the desert -- The buffalo -- Taking French leave -- Scenes at Fort Laramie -- The war parties -- Scenes at the camp -- Ill-luck -- Hunting Indians -- The Ogillallah village -- The hunting camp -- The trappers -- The Black Hills -- A mountain hunt -- Passage of the mountains -- The lonely journey -- The Pueblo and Bent's Fort -- Tete Rouge, the volunteer -- Indian alarms -- The chase -- The buffalo camp -- Down the Arkansas -- The settlements.

Action Note:

committed to retain 20160630 20310630 EAST http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials This title retained by Wesleyan University Library on behalf of the Eastern Academic Scholars Trust (EAST) print archive

Search for related items by subject

Subject:

West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
Indians of North America > West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Oregon National Historic Trail.
California National Historic Trail.
West (U.S.) > History > To 1848.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Indians of North America.
Travel.
United States > California National Historic Trail.
United States > Oregon National Historic Trail.
United States, West.

Genre:

Young adult nonfiction.
History.