The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life
Publisher Description
The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2-month summer tour in 1846 of the U. S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. Parkman was 23 at the time. The heart of the book covers the three weeks Parkman spent hunting buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux.
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