The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life is a first-person account of a 2-month summer tour in 1846 of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas. Francis Parkman, the author, was 23 at the time. The heart of the book covers the three weeks Parkman spent hunting buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux.Contents:The FrontierBreaking the IceFort Leavenworth"Jumping Off""The Big Blue"The Platte and the DesertThe BuffaloTaking French LeaveScenes at Fort LaramieThe War PartiesScenes at the CampIll LuckHunting IndiansThe Ogallalla VillageThe Hunting CampThe TrappersThe Black HillsA Mountain HuntPassage of the MountainsThe Lonely JourneyThe Pueblo and Bent's FortTete Rouge, the VolunteerIndian AlarmsThe ChaseThe Buffalo CampDown the ArkansasThe Settlements