Name: the great platte river road,the covered wagon mainline via fort kearny to fort laramie
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Author: Mattes, Merrill J.
ISBN: 9780803281530

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the great platte river road,the covered wagon mainline via fort kearny to fort laramie

Type

Physical Book

Author

Merrill J. Mattes

Publisher

Bison

Year

1987

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm

Weight

0.88 kg.

ISBN

0803281536

ISBN13

9780803281530

Synopsis "the great platte river road,the covered wagon mainline via fort kearny to fort laramie"

The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866. From jumping-off places along the Missouri River-notably the Omaha-Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, and Kansas City areas-the emigrant throngs came together at Fort Kearny, Nebraska. Although they continued on to South Pass, Wyoming, and beyond, this book focuses on the feeder mutes and the more than three hundred miles between Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. The Great Platte River Road looks at border towns, trail routes, river crossings, stage stations, military posts, and such landmarks as Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff. It goes far beyond geography and Indian encounters in revealing cultural aspects of the great migration: food, dress, equipment, organization, camping, traffic patterns, sex ratios, morals, manners, religion, crime, accidents, disease, death, and burial customs. Merrill J. Mattes based his monumental work on an examination of more than seven hundred overland journals. He has included a chronology, original maps, contemporary sketches, modern photographs, and a comprehensive bibliography.

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