TY - BOOK AU - Gardiner,Dorothy TI - West of the river PY - 1941/// CY - New York PB - Thomas Y. Growell Company KW - West (U.S.) KW - History KW - United States, West N1 - With hardcover; Includes index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -