Author: Frederick Pratt Francis
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Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: John Bratt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803260559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Trails of Yesterday, first published in 1921, is ranked with the best firsthand accounts of ranching on the northern Great Plains in the 1870s and 1880s. This classic of cow-country literature is rich in authentic frontier history. Born in England in 1842, John Bratt came to America when he was twenty-two, and in 1866 he joined a wagon train traveling from Nebraska City to Fort Phil Kearny. Bratt gives a vivid view of the country along the Great Platte River Road, reporting on the condition of the trail, meetings with Indians such as Dull Knife, and encounters with buffalo herds. There are splendid descriptions of the few forts then protecting the long trail—Forts Kearny, McPherson, Mitchell, and Sedgwick—and of the road ranches of John Burke and the notorious Jack Morrow, among others. Bratt was a cattle rancher for more than two decades and was instrumental in the settlement of North Platte, Nebraska.

Author: Clay Bonnyman Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735396811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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An account of the author's 2016 thru-hike of the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail.

Author: Alexander MacGregor Stephen
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Category : Hopi Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 870

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Author: Frank E. Gimlett
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Jennifer Pharr Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780825305689
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Originally published in 2010 with the subtitle Epic adventures on the Appalachian Trail.

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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 1208

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Author: Charles Alden Seltzer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752423870
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Reproduction of the original: The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer

Author: William Hill
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870045608
Category : Oregon National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Here lies a description of the history of the Oregon Trail - from past to present. It is a unique blend of maps, guides, emigrant diaries and journals, old drawings and paintings, together with recent photographs. This book tells the story of the Oregon Trail in an interesting, easy to read manner and is packed with information for everyone -- the armchair traveler, the tourist, the historian and the Oregon Trail buff.

Author: Barry Brierley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1410778274
Category : Western stories
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Read the Foreword Clarion book review of The Life of Stuart O. Van Slyke. In this autobiography compiled from old diaries and letters, Stuart O. Van Slyke recounts his adventures as a young man born to hardship in the early 20th century. He recalls how he overcame his background through his own grit, imagination, and the support of his family and friends. From a 21st century point of view, Stuart's unsupervised childhood seems carefree. Virtually on his own from the beginning, Stuart worked his way through college, where he was introduced to the Army through ROTC, and was the first of his family to graduate. He was called to active duty on June 30, 1941, as a second lieutenant, but his true military career started on Pearl Harbor day. This turned out to a pivotal event in the shaping of his life. One of the highlights of the book is his service in the North African Campaign and his passionate yet sensitive command of the 78th Fighter Control Squadron, and later on the staff of the Allied Air Command of Corsica. The war's ending found him in Korea in military government in 1945, where he assisted in the start of South Korea's return to the community of countries who were no longer enslaved or ruled by despots. He had a real bird's eye view of the development of the 38th Parallel dilemma that plagues us even today. At the age of 29 in 1946, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, and a civilian again, who wondered what he was now going to do.