The perilous West
Subtitle: seven amazing explorers and the founding of the Oregon Trail
By: Larry E. Morris
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781442211124
Subjects: Description and travel; Discovery and exploration; Explorers; Biography; History
Description: Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark's safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first time, focusing on each of the seven explorers in turn--Ramsey Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: "The timely arrival of this poor unfortunate woman"; title: "I shall have two boats well manned and armed"; title: "A powerful company is forming"; title: "Dissolved by mutual consent"; title: "We all now become blind from the reflection of the sun's rays"; title: "Whiskey flowed like milk and honey in the Land of Canaan"; title: "About seventy able bodied men, nerved  to hardship"; title: "Families, plantations, and all vanished"; title: "A very sad recollection"; title: "The inscrutable ways of Providence"; title: Epilogue: "Desolation and horror stared me in the face"; title: Chronology.