The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America\'s westward expansion.
He has included a chronology, original maps, contemporary sketches, modern photographs, and a comprehensive bibliography..
Mattes based his monumental work on an examination of more than seven hundred overland journals.
Merrill J.
It goes far beyond geography and Indian encounters in revealing cultural aspects of the Great migration: food, dress, equipment, organization, camping, traffic patterns, sex ratios, morals, manners, religion, crime, accidents, disease, death, and burial customs.
The Great Platte River Road looks at border towns, trail routes, River crossings, stage stations, military posts, and such landmarks as Chimney Rock and Scott\'s Bluff.
Although they continued on to South Pass, Wyoming, and beyond, this book focuses on the feeder mutes and the more than three hundred miles between Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie.
Joseph, and Kansas City areas-the emigrant throngs came together at Fort Kearny, Nebraska.
From jumping-off places along the Missouri River-notably the Omaha-Council Bluffs, St.
A number of famous trails converged in the bRoad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the Great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866.
The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America\'s westward expansion
