Crossing the Plains, Days of '57. Wm. Audley Maxwell

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57

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Wm. Audley Maxwell

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57

A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4064066176402

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CROSSING THE PLAINS DAYS OF '57

FORSAKING THE OLD IN QUEST OF THE NEW. FIRST CAMP. FORDING THE PLATTE.

LARAMIE FASHIONS AND SIOUX ETIQUETTE. A TROPHY. CHIMNEY ROCK. A SOLITARY EMIGRANT. JESTS AND JINGLES

LOST IN THE BLACK HILLS. DEVIL'S GATE. WHY A MOUNTAIN SHEEP DID NOT WINK. GREEN RIVER FERRY.

DISQUIETING RUMORS OF REDMEN. CONSOLIDATION FOR SAFETY. THE POISONOUS HUMBOLDT.

THE HOLLOWAY MASSACRE.

ORIGIN OF "PIKER." BEFORE THE ERA OF CANNED GOODS AND KODAKS. MORNING ROUTINE. TYPICAL BIVOUAC. SOCIABILITY ENTRAINED. THE FLOODED CAMP. HOPE SUSTAINS PATIENCE.

TANGLED BY A TORNADO. LOST THE PACE BUT KEPT THE COW. HUMAN ODDITIES. NIGHT-GUARDS. WOLF SERENADES. AWE OF THE WILDERNESS. A STAMPEDE.

DISASTER OVERTAKES THE WOOD FAMILY.

MYSTERIOUS VISITORS. EXTRA SENTRIES. AN ANXIOUS NIGHT.

CHALLENGE TO BATTLE.

SAGEBRUSH JUSTICE.

NIGHT TRAVEL, FROM ARID WASTES TO LIMPID WATERS.

INTO THE SETTLEMENTS. HALT.

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