The Oregon Trail

The Radnor is so overloaded that the Missouri breaks over her guards; beneath decks crowded with guns, mules, emigrants, and traders, Francis Parkman sets out for the Rocky Mountains. Ahead lie shifting sandbars—and a journey whose first obstacle may be the company he keeps.

In the spring of 1846, St. Louis is bursting with travelers bound for Oregon, California, and Santa Fe, while the Missouri’s muddy current hides snags capable of impaling a steamboat. Parkman and his friend Quincy A. Shaw head west for curiosity and amusement, joining an eccentric hunting party in Kansas before the prairies open before them. Their supplies, their companions, and the trail itself will all be tested on a long passage into unfamiliar country. What waits beyond the frontier—and will this unlikely party be ready for it?

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