The Oregon trail : sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life /

Take a trip back in time on the Oregon Trail. This series of non-fiction essays from Francis Parkman details life on the nineteenth-century American frontier, detailing the summer a young Parkman traveled through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas. Along the way, the author spent time hunting an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Parkman, Francis, > 1823-1893 > Travel > West (U.S.)
Parkman, Francis, > 1823-1893
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
TRAVEL > General.
Frontier and pioneer life
Travel
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Descriptions et voyages.
West United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Ogallalla 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.

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