The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life [Illustrated]

Francis Parkman Jr.'s chronicle of his experience crossing America in 1846 on the Oregon Trail. It covers a 2 month summer tour in 1846 of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. Parkman was 23 at the time. The heart of the book covers the three weeks Parkman spent hunting buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux.