Ghosts of the pioneers
Subtitle: a family search for the Independent Oregon Colony of 1844
By: Twain Braden.
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781599210414
Subjects: Braden, Twain -- Travel -- West (U.S.); Braden, Twain -- Family.; Independent Oregon Colony.; Pioneers -- Oregon -- Biography.; Farmers -- Missouri -- Biography.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon.; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Overland journeys to the Pacific.; Oregon National Historic Trail -- Description and travel.; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: value: An inauspicious beginning; value: The edge of the wilderness; value: The ox whisperer; value: Koyaanisqatsi; value: The independent Oregon colony; value: And the rains came down : the sublime awful; value: Save a horse, ride a cowboy; value: An inch deep and a mile wide; value: Boredom and disease; value: Men and masculinity; value: Incidents and accidents; value: Up the elk's penis : a family ascent; value: Death in the afternoon; value: Ayres Natural Bridge and Independence Rock; value: Eating dust : a week on the trail; value: Into the void; value: Ghosts of the pioneers; value: Love in the time of typhoid; value: What lies beneath; value: The valley of hope.