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Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rollicking, adventurous, touching. Whether the reader invests only a few minutes at a time or finishes the book at one sitting, he is in for a lot of fun."--American West'Fascinating tales set down succinctly and excitingly. There are stories of lost treasure and sudden riches, of outlaws and sheriffs, of massacres and heroics.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and, finally, to settle there. Using diaries, journals,...
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