They converted the wagons into makeshift boats.Continuing Life on the Oregon Trail,our selection from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra
The Human Cost of the Oregon Trail
It is certain that history gives no record of such great numbers migrating so long a distance as that of the Pioneers of the Plains, where, as we have
Encountering American Indians
We did not, however, have much trouble with the Indians in 1852.Continuing Life on the Oregon Trail,our selection from The Busy Life of
A Buffalo Stampede
In the darkness of the night we could soon see the form of the foremost leader and then such dense masses that one could not distinguish one from the
Intolerable Dust on the Oregon Trail
The word hardly expresses the situation; in fact, the English language contains no words to properly express it.Continuing Life on the Oregon
Companions of the Trail
"Keep cool," he continued; "maybe we'll have to lay down, and maybe not. Anyway, it's no use frettin'. What's to be will be, 'specially if we but help
Life on the Oregon Trail
This series has eight easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Outlaws on the Trail.IntroductionThis first-hand account of The Oregon
Trade and the Jesuits
The Jesuits entered also into other branches of trade and industry with a vigor and address which the inhabitants of Canada might have emulated with
Parkman Vol. 4, Chapter 18
In the summer of 1648, there was held at the mission of Sillery a temperance meeting; the first in all probability on this continent.Our special