Bibliograph

The perilous West, seven amazing explorers and the founding of the Oregon Trail, Larry E. Morris

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The perilous West, seven amazing explorers and the founding of the Oregon Trail, Larry E. Morris

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The perilous West

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

795177914

Responsibility statement

Larry E. Morris

Sub title

seven amazing explorers and the founding of the Oregon Trail

Summary

Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark's safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first time, focusing on each of the seven explorers in turn--Ramsey Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion. --from publisher description

Table Of 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 become 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

Target audience

adult

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