Category: Adventure
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement
Fort William--its Structure, Owners, People, Animals, Business, Adventures, and Hazards--A Division--A March--Fort el Puebla--Trappers and Whisky--A Genius--An Adventurous Iroqu...
13. CHAPTER IIIThe tract of country to which I have thought it fitting to apply the name of the "Great Prairie Wilderness," embraces the territory lying between the States of Louisiana, Arkans...
12. CHAPTER IIScarcity of Food--An Incident--Looing and Bleating--Messrs. Bents--Trade--Little Arkansas--A Nauseous Meal--A Flood--An Onset--A Hard Ride--The Deliverance--The Arkansas--An Att...
23. CHAPTER VIII {III}The Rocky Mountains and their Spurs--Geography of the Mountain Region--Wyeth--The Outset--The Beaver Catcher's Bride--Trois Butes--Addition from a Monastery--Orisons--A Merry Mo...
26. CHAPTER IX [IVParting with Friends--Wallawalla Valley--Fort Wallawalla--Mr. Pambrun--The Columbia--Country down its banks--What was seen of Rock Earth--Wood, Fire and Water--Danger, &c. from...
17. CHAPTER VAn Ascent--A Misfortune--A Death--The Mountain of the Holy Cross--Leaping Pines--Killing a Buffalo--Asses and Tyrants--Panther, &c.--Geography--Something about descending the Co...
18. CHAPTER VI {I}[151Bear Hunt--Sulphur Puddle--The River--Wolves and their Fare--Dog Eating--Little Snake River--Thirst--Deserts--Mountains--Mountain Hottentots--Brown's Hole--Fort David Crockett--...
21. CHAPTER VII [IIAn Arrival from Fort Hall--An Account from Oregon--Return of two of my companions to the States--A startling Condition--An Indian Guide--A Farewell--How a Horse studies Geology-...
11. CHAPTER IThe Rendezvous--The Destination--The Education of Mules--The Santa Fé Traders--The Mormons--The Holy War--Entrance upon the Indian Territory--A Scene--An Encampment--A Loss--A H...
3. PART I OF FARNHAM'S TRAVELS IN THE GREAT WESTERNThis authentic account of the Great Western Prairies and Oregon Territory supplies a deficiency which has been felt for a long time. The author, by his own personal observations...
14. volume xx, p. 300, note 191.--ED.[68] This plan for a general federation of the tribes west of the Mississippi was popular in 1836-37. Rev. Isaac McCoy was appointed agent and detailed to approach the tribes wi...
2. Part I of Farnham's Travels in the Great WesternTRAVELS IN THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES, THE ANAHUAC AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND IN THE OREGON COUNTRY. [Part I, being Volume I and chapters i-iv of Volume II of the London edition,...
25. volume xxvii, p. 167, note 38.--ED.[196] Farnham must have been in the neighborhood of the great Shoshone Falls of Lewis River. His description would better apply to Twin Falls, two and a half miles higher up whi...
27. volume vi, p. 246, note 50), which he here calls Mount Washington,although later giving it the title of Mount Adams (see our volume xxix, note 32--Farnham). Lewis and Clark made a similar mistake--see _Original Journals_, iii, p. 135. What our...
19. volume xxvii, p. 166, note 37.--ED.[155] Brown's Hole, now known as Brown's Park, is in the north-western corner of Colorado, on Green River. It is thought to have been named for an early trapper. The valley, whi...
28. volume xxi, pp. 291-293.--ED.[238] For the varieties of pine and other terebinthine (turpentine producing) trees of the North-west Coast, see _Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition_, iv, pp. 4...
22. volume xxii, p. 232, note 159.--ED.[175] Col. Joseph L. Meek (1810-75) was one of the most picturesque of the "mountain men" who settled in Oregon. An extended account of his adventures was published by Frances F...
10. CHAPTER VIII {III of Vol. II}The Rocky Mountains and their Spurs--Geography of the Mountain Region--Wyeth--The Outset--The Beaver Catcher's Bride--Trois Butes--Addition from a Monastery--Orisons--A Merry Mo...
8. CHAPTER VAn Ascent--A Misfortune--A Death--The Mountain of the Holy Cross--Leaping Pines--Killing a Buffalo {xxiii}--Asses and Tyrants--Panther, &c.--Geography--Something about descendin...
24. volume vii, p. 137, note 37.--ED.[194] By western, Farnham intends the southern bank of the Lewis, where passed the usual trail from Fort Hall. Rough as it was, the southern bank was less cut with gulleys and r...
6. CHAPTER IIScarcity of Food--An Incident--Looing and Bleating--Messrs. Bents--Trade--Little Arkansas--A Nauseous Meal--A Flood--An Onset--A Hard Ride--The Deliverance--The Arkansas--An Att...
20. volume xxii, p. 36, note 13.--ED.[161] A brief note on the Arapaho is in our volume v, p. 225, note 120. The significance of the tribal name is uncertain, but is supposed to mean "he who buys or trades." The Ca...
4. volume vi, p. 183, note 1.--ED.[22] The prior occupancy was the settlement at Astoria, for which see prefaces to Franchère's _Narrative_, in our volume vi, and Ross's _Oregon Settlers_ in our volume vii. Afte...
9. CHAPTER VII {II of Vol. II}An Arrival from Fort Hall--An Account from Oregon--Return of two of my companions to the States--A startling Condition--An Indian Guide--A Farewell--{vi} How a Horse studies Geo...
1. Volume XXVIIIA Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and...
7. CHAPTER IVFort William--its Structure, Owners, People, Animals, Business, Adventures, and Hazards--A Division--A March--Fort el Puebla--Trappers and Whisky--A Genius--An Adventurous Iroqu...
5. CHAPTER IThe Rendezvous--The Destination--The Education of Mules--The Santa Fé Traders--The Mormons--The Holy War--Entrance upon the Indian Territory--A Scene--An Encampment--A Loss--A H...
16. volume v, p. 140, note 88.--ED.[131] This is the divide known as Boreas (or Breckenridge) Pass, which has an over-sea elevation of 11,470 feet at the summit; it is now traversed by the railway mentioned in no...