The perilous West : seven amazing explorers and the founding of the Oregon Trail /
Morris, Larry E.,1951-
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,
2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: The Timely Arrival of This Poor Unfortunate Woman -- I Shall Have Two Boats Well Manned and Armed -- A Powerful Company Is Forming -- Dissolved by Mutual Consent -- We All Now Became Blind from the Reflection of the Sun's Rays -- Whiskey Flowed Like Milk and Honey in the Land of Canaan -- About Seventy Able Bodied Men, Nerved to Hardship -- Families, Plantations, and All Vanished -- A Very Sad Recollection -- The Inscrutable Ways of Providence -- Epilogue: Desolation and Horror Stared Me in the Face -- Chronology.
Explorers
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