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The Prairie Traveler - A Handbook for Overland Expeditions in the American Old West (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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The Prairie Traveler - A Handbook for Overland Expeditions in the American Old West (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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Randolph Marcy wrote this guide for fellow travelers wanting to
brave the wilderness of North America, at a time when the western
reaches of the continent were barely settled. A captain in the U.S.
military, Marcy wrote this guide partly to allay the many myths and
fears of the Western frontier, and partly to offer guidance to the
dangers which were actually manifest. The information within takes
readers across two popular trails - northerly, ending in Oregon,
and southerly, ending in Santa Fe. Written in 1859, this book is
both a guidebook and an authentic history of the Wild West era.
Various anecdotes are interspersed through the text - Marcy is
careful to differentiate between friendly Indian tribes such as the
Delawares and Shawnees, whom he admires. The Plains Indians however
are considered to have hostile tendencies; Marcy instructs on how
to sign, and gives a detailed account of how to safely sleep with a
gun cocked and loaded.
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