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Great Platte River Road The Covered Wagon Mainline Via for Tkearny to Fort Laramie

Great Platte River Road The Covered Wagon Mainline Via for Tkearny to Fort Laramie
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  • ISBN-13: 9780803281530
  • ISBN: 0803281536
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Mattes, Merrill J., Mattes, Merrill

SUMMARY

The Great Platte River Roadthrough Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866. From jumping-off places along the Missouri Rivernotably the Omaha-Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, and Kansas City areasthe emigrant throngs came together at Fort Kearny, Nebraska. Although they continued on to South Pass, Wyoming, and beyond, this book focuses on the feeder mutes and the more than three hundred miles between Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. The Great Platte River Roadlooks at border towns, trail routes, river crossings, stage stations, military posts, and such landmarks as Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff. It goes far beyond geography and Indian encounters in revealing cultural aspects of the great migration: food, dress, equipment, organization, camping, traffic patterns, sex ratios, morals, manners, religion, crime, accidents, disease, death, and burial customs.Mattes, Merrill J. is the author of 'Great Platte River Road The Covered Wagon Mainline Via for Tkearny to Fort Laramie' with ISBN 9780803281530 and ISBN 0803281536.

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