Parkman, Francis,  1823-1893 <br/><br/>
The Oregon Trail / 
illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. 
 - Garden City :  Doubleday & Co.,  1946. 
 - vi, 328 pages :  color plates ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Cont.: The Frontier -- Breaking the ice -- Fort Leavenworth -- "Jumping Off" -- The "Big Blue" -- The platte and the desert -- The buffalo -- Taking French leave -- Scenes at Fort Laramie -- The war parties -- Scenes at the camp -- Ill-Luck -- Hunting Indians -- The Ogillallah Village -- The Hunting Camp -- The trappers -- The Black Hills -- A mountain hunt -- Passage of the mountains -- The lonely journey -- The pueblo and Bent's Fort -- Tête Rouge, the volunteer -- Indian alarms -- The chase -- The buffalo camp -- Down the Arkansas -- The settlements. 
<br/><br/> Presents an account of a young Eastern journalist's travels on the Oregon Trail and in 1846 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indians of North America--West (U.S.)<br/>Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>West (U.S.)--Description and travel