The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life
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1. Verfasser: Parkman, Francis 1823-1893 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Auckland] Floating Press c2010
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Beschreibung:Title from PDF title page (viewed Feb. 11, 2011). - "First published in 1847"--P. 2
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
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 and fishing, as well as participating in a buffalo hunt led by members of the Native American tribe, the Oglala Sioux
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (492 p.)
ISBN:1775419053
9781775419051

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