Gardiner, Dorothy <br/><br/>
West of the river / 
by Dorothy Gardiner. 
 - New York :  Thomas Y. Growell Company,  1941. 
 - vi p., 2 leaves, [3]-347 p. color frontispiece, :  ill., color plates, color portraits ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> With hardcover 
<br/><br/>Includes index 
<br/><br/>Cont.: Part 1 On western highways: -- Western country -- River route to the west -- Santa Fe Trail and Bent's Fort -- Great Road, its forts and its travelers -- Part 2 Development of the West: First White men -- Louisiana purchase -- Fur traders -- Oregon, Utah, and California -- Motive power and pack animals -- Wagons and stagecoaches -- Soldiers, freighters, and Pike's Peak -- Mails, express, and telegraph -- Ben Holladay and the "Overland" -- Indian wars -- Pacific Railway. 
<br/><br/> History of the exploration and development of the American continent during the nineteenth century, west from the Missouri River and north of the Santa Fé Trail. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>West (U.S.)--History<br/>United States, West.