Contact
How to shop
Delivery
Shopping guide
Great Platte River Road
English
61 b
Up to 30 days for returns
Customers also purchased
/
Paperback
5 744
Ft
/
Paperback
12 995
Ft
/
Paperback
13 870
Ft
'Mattes has given us the handbook to end all handbooks - over a portion of this now legendary passageway west' - Robert C. Athearn, "Journal of American History". 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.
About the book
English
Categories
Give this book today
It's easy
1 Add to cart and choose Deliver as present at the checkout 2 We'll send you a voucher 3 The book will arrive at the recipient's addressYou might also be interested in
/
Paperback
9 634
Ft
/
Paperback
18 273
Ft
/
Hardback
40 831
Ft
