Across the Rockies to the Columbia Author:John Kirk Townsend Townsend's journal of traveling across the plains and mountains to the Pacific in 1834 is not only an enjoyable read depicting life as such, but also an important historical narrative on names and events of the day. — An accomplished ornithologist, Townsend accompanied Nathaniel Wyeth and his seventy-man caravan of goods to the 1834 rendezvous an... more »d eventually established Ft. Hall in Idaho. Also in this expedition was the famous botanist Thomas Nuttall.
The author is very descriptive and expressive of everything around him from geography; the natural world; Indian encounters, along with their living conditions and cultures, to the livelihood of being on the trail and surviving day to day. He is meticulous and energetic in his writing.« less