The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail
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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 Frontier Breaking the Ice Fort Leavenworth "Jumping Off" "The Big Blue" The Platte and the Desert The Buffalo Taking French Leave Scenes at Fort Laramie The War Parties Scenes at the Camp Ill Luck Hunting Indians The Ogallalla Village The Hunting Camp The Trappers The Black Hills A Mountain Hunt Passage of the Mountains The Lonely Journey The Pueblo and Bent's Fort Tete Rouge, the Volunteer Indian Alarms The Chase The Buffalo Camp Down the Arkansas The Settlements

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Francis Parkman. The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. THE FRONTIER

CHAPTER II. BREAKING THE ICE

CHAPTER III. FORT LEAVENWORTH

CHAPTER IV “JUMPING OFF”

CHAPTER V “THE BIG BLUE”

CHAPTER VI. THE PLATTE AND THE DESERT

CHAPTER VII. THE BUFFALO

CHAPTER VIII. TAKING FRENCH LEAVE

CHAPTER IX. SCENES AT FORT LARAMIE

CHAPTER X. THE WAR PARTIES

CHAPTER XI. SCENES AT THE CAMP

CHAPTER XII. ILL LUCK

CHAPTER XIII. HUNTING INDIANS

CHAPTER XIV. THE OGALLALLA VILLAGE

CHAPTER XV. THE HUNTING CAMP

CHAPTER XVI. THE TRAPPERS

CHAPTER XVII. THE BLACK HILLS

CHAPTER XVIII. A MOUNTAIN HUNT

CHAPTER XIX. PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAINS

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

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We set out together, and rode a mile or two in advance. The captain, in the course of twenty years’ service in the British army, had seen something of life; one extensive side of it, at least, he had enjoyed the best opportunities for studying; and being naturally a pleasant fellow, he was a very entertaining companion. He cracked jokes and told stories for an hour or two; until, looking back, we saw the prairie behind us stretching away to the horizon, without a horseman or a wagon in sight.

“Now,” said the captain, “I think the vedettes had better stop till the main body comes up.”

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