The Oregon trail : sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life

Last spring, 1846, was a busy season in the City of St. Louis. Not only wereemigrants from every part of the country preparing for the journey to Oregonand California, but an unusual number of traders were making ready theirwagons and outfits for Santa Fe. Many of the emigrants, especially of thosebound for California, were persons of wealth and standing. The hotels werecrowded, and the gunsmiths and saddlers were kept constantly at work inproviding arms and equipments for the different parties of travelers. Almostevery day steamboats were leaving the levee and passing up the Missouri,crowded with passengers on their way to the frontier. Take a trip back in time on the Oregon Trail. This series of non-fiction essays from Francis Parkman details life on the nineteenth-century American frontier, detailing the summer a young Parkman traveled through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas. Along the way, the author spent time hunting and fishing, as well as participating in a buffalo hunt led by members of the Native American tribe, the Oglala Sioux.