The Oregon trail Sketches of prairie and rocky-mountain life
by Frances Parkman; Illustrated by Frederic Remington
- Boston Little, Brown and Company 1912
- 411 p.
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
Contains "The Oregon Trail," a collection of essays that first appeared in the "Knickerbocker Magazine," discussing Parkman's trip to Oregon in 1846, and "The Conspiracy of Pontiac," relating Ottawa leader Pontiac's attacks on British forts and settlements in the 1760s.
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