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Crossing the Plains, Days of '57

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57

by Wm. Audley Maxwell

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Author
Maxwell, Wm. Audley (William Audley), -1921
Title
Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method
Credits
Produced by Richard J. Shiffer and the Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
Subject
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Category
Text
eBook-No.
26858
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26858
Release Date
October 9, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.CROSSING THE PLAINS DAYS OF '57 — A NARRATIVE OF EARLY EMIGRANT TRAVEL TO CALIFORNIA BY THE OX-TEAM METHOD — BY — WM. AUDLEY MAXWELL
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. 4.FOREWORD
  5. 5.CROSSING THE PLAINS DAYS OF '57
  6. 6.CHAPTER I. — FORSAKING THE OLD IN QUEST OF THE NEW. FIRST CAMP. FORDING THE PLATTE. — FOOTNOTES:
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. — LARAMIE FASHIONS AND SIOUX ETIQUETTE. A TROPHY. CHIMNEY ROCK. A SOLITARY EMIGRANT. JESTS AND JINGLES
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. — LOST IN THE BLACK HILLS. DEVIL'S GATE. WHY A MOUNTAIN SHEEP DID NOT WINK. GREEN RIVER FERRY.
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — DISQUIETING RUMORS OF REDMEN. CONSOLIDATION FOR SAFETY. THE POISONOUS HUMBOLDT.
  10. 10.CHAPTER V. — THE HOLLOWAY MASSACRE.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — ORIGIN OF "PIKER." BEFORE THE ERA OF CANNED GOODS AND KODAKS. MORNING ROUTINE. TYPICAL BIVOUAC. SOCIABILITY ENTRAINED. THE FLOODED CAMP. HOPE SUSTAINS PATIENCE.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — TANGLED BY A TORNADO. LOST THE PACE BUT KEPT THE COW. HUMAN ODDITIES. NIGHT-GUARDS. WOLF SERENADES. AWE OF THE WILDERNESS. A STAMPEDE.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — DISASTER OVERTAKES THE WOOD FAMILY.
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — MYSTERIOUS VISITORS. EXTRA SENTRIES. AN ANXIOUS NIGHT.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. — CHALLENGE TO BATTLE.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — SAGEBRUSH JUSTICE.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — NIGHT TRAVEL, FROM ARID WASTES TO LIMPID WATERS.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — INTO THE SETTLEMENTS. HALT.
  19. 19.END.

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