My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia
Subtitle: Volume 1 (Duckworth Discoverers)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780715630853
Subjects: Classic travel writing; Other prose: 19th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Transportation; Indians of North America; Travel - General; United States - General; Travel; ASIA; USA; Essays & Travelogues; Native American; United States - 19th Century/Old West; Travel / Essays & Travelogues; West (U.S.); Motorcycles - General; 1866-1895; Description and travel; Wars
First sentence: Our special correspondent, whom we lately sent to accompany General Hancock's expedition, overtook the command on the banks of the Saline, and in a letter which has been delayed writes thus: - "A ride of forty-seven miles (from Solomon City) brought us within view of General Hancock's expedition, encamped on the banks of the Saline River, a small, muddy, but swift stream, which empties itself into the Smoky Hill River five miles below the town of Salina.