Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the authors remarkablerecord of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experiencedwhile tra... » 

Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the authors remarkablerecord of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experiencedwhile traveling across mountains and prairies vibrant portraits of emigrantsand Western wildlife and vivid descriptions of Indian life and culture. Aclassic of American frontier literature. «