Mattes, Merrill J.   <br/><br/>
The Great Platte River Road:  the covered wagon mainline via For Kearny to Fort Laramie /  Print 
Merrill J. Mattes 
 - Lincoln, Nebraska  Nebraska State Historical Society  1969 
 - 583 p.  Index.  Hardback book, dust jacket. 
 - Publications / Nebraska State Historical Society  v. 25 . <br/><br/>  Map on endpapers. 
<br/><br/> "This is a study in depth of the eastern third of the central overland trail system from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast, that part which followed the Platte River via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie. ... [The information] is distilled from firsthand impressions of several hundred covered wagon emigrants, representing both sexes and all degrees of human latitude, who somehow contrived to leave something for the historical record. It is the story of their unique collective Platte River experience as it emerges from their own unvarnished journals."--Preface.  A history of the Great Platte River Road, a transcontinental route of the covered wagon migration of 1841 - 1866. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>79-627916 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Overland journeys to the Pacific Bibliography <br/>Trails --West (U.S.)<br/>Oregon Trail
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label>--Description and travel
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>978.2 Mat   15