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Author/Creator:Morris, Larry E.
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Title:The perilous West : seven amazing explorers and the founding of the Oregon Trail / Larry E. Morris.
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ISBN:9781442211124 (hbk.)
1442211121 (hbk.)
9781442211148 (ebk.)
1442211148 (ebk.)
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Published/Created:Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2013.
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Links:Online book (login required)
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Variant and related titles:Internet Archive collection.
- Format:Book
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:Prologue: The Timely Arrival of This Poor Unfortunate Woman -- I Shall Have Two Boats Well Manned and Armed -- A Powerful Company Is Forming -- Dissolved by Mutual Consent -- We All Now Became Blind from the Reflection of the Sun's Rays -- Whiskey Flowed Like Milk and Honey in the Land of Canaan -- About Seventy Able Bodied Men, Nerved to Hardship -- Families, Plantations, and All Vanished -- A Very Sad Recollection -- The Inscrutable Ways of Providence -- Epilogue: Desolation and Horror Stared Me in the Face -- Chronology.
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Subjects:Explorers--Oregon National Historic Trail--Biography.
Explorers--West (U.S.)--Biography.
Oregon National Historic Trail--Discovery and exploration.
Oregon National Historic Trail--Description and travel.
West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration.
West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
West (U.S.)--History--To 1848.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15291601