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49 ratings, 3.47 average rating, 10 reviews
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published
November 15th 2002
by Dover Publications
binding
Paperback, 400 pages
isbn
0486424804
(isbn13: 9780486424804)
description
Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experien...more
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In 1846 the author traveled on the Oregon Trail as far as Fort Laramie where he then spent many weeks with some of the friendly Indian tribes in the area, the Dakota, the Ogala. He describes buffalo hunts, Indian traditions, the terrible terrain, the food, the lack of water, the many hostile Indian groups that liked nothing better than to kill whites when they found them. Almost all the things a person would wonder about living in the time period. There is some early mention of the “dreade...more
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I still remember where this book sits in my elementary school library. During my years there, I read this favorite again and again. It was like a sanctuary in the unpredictable, sometimes scary world of my youth. Other, non-reading children, didn't understand why I picked such a long, big book. I couldn't understand how they could bear to miss such a great story.
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What a difference in a travel log! I'll take this guy any day over Twain. This was pretty interesting even if they didn't go to Oregon. I thought the author a little bit of a bratt, didn't like the needless sport of buffalo killing, but I enjoyed the time among the indians.
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Read in August, 2008
Not for me. I found the style boring, and the constant reference to old Indian women as "hags" grated on me. Also the gratuitous buffalo killings got old.
One cool thing, though, is a reference to Colonel Russell and the Donner Party!
One cool thing, though, is a reference to Colonel Russell and the Donner Party!
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Read in January, 1970
recommends it for:
College age and up
I read this while in college. I loved it! It is the real thing. At the time I never dreamed I would move to...Oregon.
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november's book club title (but i'm going to be out of town)
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Read in January, 1995
thomas benton hart illustrations sure a pretty to look at.
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