OVERLAND FREIGHTING IN THE PLATTE VALLEY 1850–1870
CONTENTS CHAPTER I: THE ROUTE–WHEN AND WHERE: The valley of the Platte; "Great Medicine Road"; The Astorians; Milton Sublette; First use of wagons; General William R. Ashley; South Pass discovered; Captain Benjamin L. E. Bonneville; Nathaniel J. Wyeth; Periods of the trail; The "Orego...
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DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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| Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/historydiss/8 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/historydiss/article/1003/viewcontent/Pages_OCR.pdf |