The Oregon Trail

by Francis PARKMAN, JR. (1823 - 1893)

Chapter XVII. The Black Hills

The Oregon Trail

The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23. (Summary by Wikipedia)


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Chapter XIX. Passage of the Mountains , Chapter XVIII. A Mountain Hunt , Chapter XX. The Lonely Journey , Chapter XXI. The Pueblo and Bent's Fort , Chapter XXII. Tete Rouge, the Volunteer , Chapter XXIII. Indian Alarms , Chapter XXIV. The Chase , Chapter XXV. The Buffalo Camp , Chapter XXVI. Down the Arkansas , Chapter XXVII. The Settlements